| | |Hey Javier, | |I'm so sorry to hear about it........! | |No, WE are thank you for all your support for soooo long time...! |and We thank you for having helped to spread this music which we |love so much. | |All the best |SdSout | |P.S. : any idea how European people could help about this issue ? since we cannot call our congressman :-) Lester ? | |The more " funny" is when we know How works the transfer of the |copyrights between BMI/ASCAP and the artist........I'm curious to |know WHO was paid off , and who will be paid off amongst the |artists that we support , when a commercial site broadcast their |tracks...........! | |Our petition To BMI/ASCAP should start with this introduction..... | | ||-----Original Message----- ||From: Javier Drada [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ||Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 8:15 AM ||To: 313@hyperreal.org ||Subject: [313] Underground Committee Forced to Pull Webcast || || ||Unfortunately due to the pending issues with webcasting lincensing, ||Underground Committee is forced to pull all streams from it's site. || ||Underound Committee is an independent organization who set out to give you ||quality Underground Music, thats all gone now. We can't afford |the fees. It ||all started with BMI. After numerous attempts to contact us, they finally ||decided to just mail us the contract. || ||------------------------------------------------------------------- ||--------- ||---- || ||The Bullshit they want us to believe: || ||Webcasting CARP: What's All The Fuss About? ||Who is it? Three-person Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel (CARP) ||appointed ||by the U.S. Copyright Office. ||What is it? The CARP submitted a report to the Copyright Office ||recommending ||royalty rates to be paid by webcasters and simulcasters (i.e. FCC-licensed ||broadcasters that simultaneously retransmit on the Internet) to |artists and ||copyright holders. ||When? The proposed rates were submitted on February 20, 2002; The |Copyright ||Office must rule on the rates by the end of May 2002. ||What's the issue? In recent weeks, the CARP rates have become the ||subject of ||an intense misinformation and propaganda campaign (so called "grassroots" ||but really ginned up by sophisticated lobbyists in D.C.) -- waged through ||the news media, emails to Capitol Hill and numerous Internet ||sites. The goal ||is to scare non-commercial webcasters - including college radio ||stations and ||so-called hobbyists - and their members of Congress into thinking that the ||CARP rates are going to drive non-commercial webcasters out of ||business. The ||RIAA's Position On CARP Rates Contrary to what has been reported ||in the news ||media and circulated on the Internet, the RIAA and its member ||companies want ||ALL webcasters, large and small, to succeed. Unlike terrestrial ||broadcasters, webcasters - particularly non-commercial webcasters |- provide ||a much-needed outlet for musical diversity (i.e., by providing ||"airplay" for ||new artists, artists with a niche following and artists who play unusual ||genres of music). Webcasting also represents an important and ||growing source ||of revenue for record labels, as well as for artists and performers. The ||CARP rates will enable webcasters to thrive. Contrary to press |reports, the ||evidence strongly suggests that many of the non-commercial webcasters who ||think the CARP rates will put them out of busines will actually only be ||required to pay the minimum (and minimal) annual fee of $500. ||How could our royalty calculations differ so dramatically from the ||claims of ||webcasters? Non-commercial webcasters (like a hobbyist) are the ||targets of a ||well-orchestrated misinformation campaign. Most of the fee projections ||reported in the news media make the erroneous assumption that ||every listener ||who ever logs into a given non-commercial webcast remains logged into the ||site 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 days per year. This ||assumes that ||no one ever logs off and listeners only visit that particular ||site. While no ||one can say for sure what the actual listener's time is, the notion that ||they stayed logged on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, is ||preposterous and the ||subject of gross exaggerations. We recognize and appreciate that ||non-commercial broadcasters are a special class of web radio; the rates ||should accordingly reflect that. We would welcome the opportunity to ||negotiate a solution. Artists and labels are entitled to be paid for their ||work-the music recordings on which webcasting businesses are being built. ||Artists and record companies deserve to be rewarded for the creative ||contributions that webcasters utilize to build their businesses. |Webcasters ||have many costs, but one of the least expensive is the music that is the ||foundation of their business. Musicians and artists should not be |forced to ||subsidize the profit margin of webcasters like MTV, Microsoft, AOL ||TimeWarner and others. || ||The minimum fees are like this: || ||CARP: $500.00 ||ASCAP: $264.00 ||BMI: $250.00 || ||Total Fee: $1,014.00 per year || ||------------------------------------------------------------------- ||--------- ||---- || ||On Behalf of Underground Committee and all the Artist, Labels and DJ's ||represented, we thank you for all your support. || ||The Underground Committee Staff || ||<<<<<For more info please log-on to: ||http://www.undergroundcommittee.com>>>>> || || || || || ||--------------------------------------------------------------------- ||To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ||For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ||
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