the most ridiculous things about these rules are those having to do with restrictions concerning the number of times you play a certain artist, or label, or songs from an album.
I came across this issue several times, especially when I would do artists/producer features, label retrospectives and the such. mad wax | the vocode project | http://www.vocode.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeffrey Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <313@hyperreal.org> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 4:32 PM Subject: Re: [313] Internet Monopoly > At 03:28 PM 5/23/2001, Ian wrote: > >on 5/23/01 3:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > and now we are being urged to pay fees to > > > broadcast on the net. What is that? I can understand of you are making > > money > > > off of your webcast but most of us do this simply to promote quality > > > underground music. > > > >Interesting angle here. You could try to counter that fees should be waived > >due to the fact that you are not billing *them* standard fees for promotion > >of the recordnings. > > > >Then again, I have no direct experience with the law in this regard. > > jwz, one of the guys who wrote netscape, made a ton of money and is opening > a club. on his site for the club, he outlines the hows and whys of all the > licensing needed to legally operate an audio webcast: > > http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/webcasting.html > > Interesting quote: > >So, when you want to perform music, you pay all three of these > >organizations. Rather than asking you which particular songs you're > >playing, they just charge you a blanket rate for access to their entire > >catalog; and then they make their own decision on how much of your money > >to pass along to the various copyright holders. They do this > >statistically, by looking at the popular music charts: rather than paying > >the particular artists you've played, they just assume that almost all of > >your money should go to the most popular stars. > > > >And yes, you have to pay all three of them. Though they each represent > >disjoint sets of artists, they each represent a very large number of > >artists: so many that they just assume that you're playing something by > >someone they represent. So if you're not paying them, then they will sue you. > > > -j > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
