Re: CARP Passed - This sucks!

["Luigi Meloni" <Luigimeloni74@libero.it>]

Another question. I am an Italian artist. I'm not affiliated (obviously) to
BMI/ASCAP,  but have my rights protected by I.M.R.O. (the Irish rights
organization). My label has currently set up a radio station under mp3.com
or emusic.com  (that are American), that transmits only our music. What is
our position regarding this law? Do we have to pay RIAA for something? Does
this all have a sense to anyone of you?

We too in Italy have something similar to the CARP. The funny thing is that
in Italy the situation is even more complex. To explain it in few words, if
I (the sole owner of the rights on my compositions) want to put some of MY
music (for free) on MY internet site, then I'll have to pay to the SIAE 
(the
Italian rights organization) so that they collect the money and then pay 
ME,
the artist,  the sum minus the 40% of what I had to pay (the 40 % remains 
to
the SIAE for the expenses of collecting my money and giving it back to
me...). The funny thing is that I'm not affiliated to SIAE in any way, 
since
I'm affiliate to the IMRO, but I'll have to pay the same. If my 
compositions
were not copyrighted I would have to pay the same,  and the 100% of the
money would go to SIAE (and we are talking of quite some money).

Peace
Luigi

----- Original Message -----
From: "matt davignon" <mattdavignon@hotmail.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 8:26 PM
Subject: re: CARP Passed - This sucks!


> Now here's a question:
>
> Can a streaming radio station exist by playing only songs of consenting
> artists and labels who are not affiliated with BMI/ASCAP?
>
> There are enough good non-major-label artists who actually want their
music
> to be heard to fill a huge number of stations in any genre, and I'd like
to
> think there's a large enough audience that would be interested in hearing
> stuff that they don't already hear on the radio.
>
> I think the reason that the major labels made the effort to squash
internet
> radio is that they feared they would no longer have control of all the
> channels necessary to convince John Q. Average-American that the bands
> marketed by them are the only ones worth hearing. That's why they didn't
> make effort to charge the same rate to broadcast radio stations. 95% of
> broadcast radio stations exclusively play major-label material.
>
> Anyway, it would be nice if we could turn this into a case of the majors
> shooting themselves in the foot. Wouldn't it be great if we said, "Ok,
well
> since you're being such an asshole about it, we'll only play music by
> artists/labels who are in it for the art and community from now on."
>
> Matt
>
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