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Subject: Re: Copyright Royalty Board Rate Structure
Date: 23 Mar 2007 04:01:45 -0000
From: SpacialAudio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Re: Copyright Royalty Board Rate Structure
If you are reading this you are involved with internet radio: Maybe as a hobby.
Maybe on a professional level with the hopes of making profit at some point in
the future.
If you are reading this you are personally affected by the recent Copyright
Royalty Board's ruling
that will elevate royalty rates 140% over the next four years.
If you have made it to this sentence your interest is strong enough to initiate
action that will let those
in a position of power know you are concerned with the increased costs for
products (music),
which holds no definitive value until radio gives it exposure and makes it
popular.
Spacial Audio's position on this recent CRB ruling is simple: Artists should be
paid for their work
to a degree that directly relates to the worth of their work.
Spacial Audio wants you to know that we are actively working behind the scenes,
and directly
with groups like DiMA, on efforts to overturn the Copyright Royalty Board's
ruling. But, the
most important element of this process is more in your hands than ours. You need
to:
1) Take action, by contacting your Washington Representatives directly. You
will find their names here.
2) Sign a petition reflecting your disagreement with the Copyright Royalty
Board's decision.
3) Place links to both of the above on your radio station web site, so your
listeners may voice their
opinion. Nothing works in Washington D.C. like the aggravated and disapproving
voice of the people.
4) Don't "do nothing," and don't "give up." This is a legal process that may
take years to come
to a conclusion. The fight is not over unless you let it be over.
The CRB will soon hold another hearing to listen, once again, to the outcry from
the public and small webcasters
who are so adversely affected by its early March 2007 ruling. This action would
not be happening unless there
were doubts as to the capricious nature of the royalty rates it set.
Spacial Audio urges you to become involved, to help save an industry that is
perfectly willing to pay
for music but is not willing to let itself be walked over by the groups that
control music.
These extremely high rates will be overturned; as surely as they were held off
in the last occurrence that set rates
beyond the reach of webcasters (in 2001). You have my word that Spacial Audio is
behind your efforts to right
this wrong, and to grow the online radio industry. But, we have work to do - so
don't sit idle hoping everything
will work itself out. Take action, today! We are.
Bryan Payne, CEO
Spacial Audio Solutions LLC
Austin, TX
214-453-3550
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