you'll find that the US is an anomaly with regards to the payment for the transmission of sound recordings over terrestrial radio.
other countries recognise a right in the broadcast of copyright sound recordings - on and offline. depending on how underground the music is - the RIAA will not control that repertoire, and thus will have no rights to claim....it will take alot of resources for the RIAA to implement a licence scheme for all US sites that stream music.. it will be interesting to see how internet radio portals like live365 deal with the ruling...... on 22/10/03 8:14 PM, jurren baars at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/3096481 > > internet radio will have to pay royalties. > not just that, they'll have to pay royalties to the producers, artists and > composers of the work. > traditional radio only has to pay royalties to the composers. > > the reason why tradition radio has to pay royalties only to the composers, > and not producers and artists is that: traditional radio stimulates sales, > whereas internet radio does not... > > it's not yet the final verdict, but this might have some serious > consequences on internet radio in general, but underground music in > particular. > > jurren > > _________________________________________________________________ > Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail >
