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Webcasting



>From Electronic Frontier Foundation:
* Music Webcasting Still in Danger After Small Stations Get
Temporary Reprieve

Responding to Congressional pressure, the major label-
backed licensing authority SoundExchange has offered small
webcasters a temporary reprieve from the Copyright Royalty
Board's outrageous royalty rate increase. This is a step in
the right direction, but it still doesn't solve any of the
underlying problems with the current licensing system.
Music webcasting's future still hangs in the balance.

SoundExchange's offer would essentially extend the much
more reasonable statutory licensing terms that small
webcasters have relied on for the last five years. But
commercial services like Pandora and Live365 are still in
deep trouble, as are small webcasters that may want to
expand their businesses over time. And when SoundExchange's
offer expires in 2010, small webcasters may once again be
threatened with extinction.

The Internet Radio Equality Act would help sustain music
webcasting and fix the statutory licensing process on which
most nonsubscription, noninteractive music webcasters rely.
For more on this bill and SoundExchange's offer, check out
SaveNetRadio.org:
http://www.savenetradio.org

For this post and related links:
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/005265.php

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