Save Internet Radio!
If the rates go up as planned, thousands of internet stations (like this one!) will be forced to shut down. Please send this to friends and/or repost this on My Space!
Thanks,
Renee
----------------- Bulletin Message -----------------
From: FIGHT THE RIAA
Date: Apr 28, 2007 9:30 PM
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Please write or call your representative and ask them to co-sponsor this bill. Bill number H.R. 2060
I am urging everyone that loves Internet Radio to please take a few minutes right now and send this email from link below to your local representatives. It will keep Internet Radio from being taken away from us all and will NOT allow the major labels to force their idea of what talent is, down our throats.
BELIEVE ME THIS WILL TAKE NO MORE THEN 5 MINUTES!!! PLEASE HELP!!
CONTACT YOUR REPRESENATIVES HERE
From http://www.savenetradio.org/about/index.html:
"On March 2, 2007 the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB), which oversees sound recording royalties paid by Internet radio services, increased Internet radio's royalty burden between 300 and 1200 percent and thereby jeopardized the industry’s future.
"At the request of the Recording Industry Association of America, the CRB ignored the fact that Internet radio royalties were already double what satellite radio pays, and multiplied the royalties even further. The 2005 royalty rate was 7/100 of a penny per song streamed; the 2010 rate will be 19/100 of a penny per song streamed. And for small webcasters that were able to calculate royalties as a percentage of revenue in 2005 – that option was quashed by the CRB, so small webcasters’ royalties will grow exponentially!
"Before this ruling was handed down, the vast majority of webcasters were barely making ends meet as Internet radio advertising revenue is just beginning to develop. Without a doubt most Internet radio services will go bankrupt and cease webcasting if this royalty rate is not reversed by the Congress, and webcasters’ demise will mean a great loss of creative and diverse radio. Surviving webcasters will need sweetheart licenses that major record labels will be only too happy to offer, so long as the webcaster permits the major label to control the programming and playlist. Is that the Internet radio you care to hear?"
posted by Renee @ 7:23 PM
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