oh ok!----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Toews" <DogRiver@xxxxxxxx>
To: <winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 5:11 PM Subject: Re: Judges Reject Appeals From Webcasters
They can't. It's an American law, only Americans are going to influence congresspeople.Bruce -- Bruce Toews Skype ID: o.canada E-mail and MSN/Windows Messenger: DogRiver@xxxxxxxx LiveJournal: http://brucetola.livejournal.com Radio Show and Podcast: http://www.totw.net Web Site (including info on my weekly commentaries): http://www.ogts.net Info on the Best TV Show of All Time: http://www.cornergas.com On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, arlene wrote:Hey I did try to sign it but it's for US listeners only! where can Canadians go to do this?----- Original Message ----- From: Sarah To: winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 11:36 AM Subject: Re: Judges Reject Appeals From WebcastersNot really. I just signed a petition and sent some lletters to my local congress poeple. Go to http://www.savenetradio.org for more info.----- Original Message ----- From: Ron Canazzi To: winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 11:58 AM Subject: Re: Judges Reject Appeals From Webcasters And this means the effective end of independent Internet Radio. Within 2 years, Internet broadcasting will be like cable TV: Five people determining what ye shall hear and what ye shall see. ----- Original Message ----- From: "djc" <djc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 11:46 AM Subject: Judges Reject Appeals From Webcasters Judges Reject Appeals From Webcasters Sites Can Tally Fees Per Listening Hours POSTED: 6:59 pm PDT April 16, 2007 UPDATED: 6:59 pm PDT April 16, 2007 LAS VEGAS -- Internet radio broadcasters were dealt a setback Monday when a panel of copyrightjudges threw out requests to reconsider a ruling that hiked the royaltiesthey must pay to record companies and artists.A broad group of public and private broadcasters, including radio stations,smallstartup companies, National Public Radio and major online sites like YahooInc. and Time Warner Inc.'s AOL, had objected to the new royalties set March 2, saying theywould force a drastic cutback in services that are now enjoyed by some 50million people.In the latest ruling, the Copyright Royalty Board judges denied all motionsfor rehearingand also declined to postpone a May 15 deadline by which the new royaltieswill have to be collected.However, they did grant leniency on one point, allowing the webcasters tocalculate fees by average listening hours, as they had been, as opposed to the new system of charging a royalty each time every song is heard by an online listener. That exemption counts for last year and this year. After that, the new per-song, per-listener fee structure goes into effect. Many webcasters say the sharply higher royalty fees will put them out of business. Talk of the ruling dominated a one-day meeting of Internet radio broadcasters being held in Las Vegas alongside the annual conference of the National Association of Broadcasters, a group representing local radio and TV stations. N. Mark Lam, the CEO of Live365 Inc., a privately held company that aggregates audiostreams from thousands of radio stations and other small webcasters, saidthat under the new royalty rules, "there is no industry." Lam, who joined the venture capital-backed company about two years ago, said Live365just barely broke even last year and had about 4.5 million unique listenersevery month.Also on Monday, several Internet radio broadcasters announced a campaign toraise awareness of the issue and encourage listeners to write to their representatives in Congress. Small broadcasters have received relief from Congress in the past, benefiting from a law passed five years ago that gave them a break on royalty rates. The legislationallowed them to pay about 12 percent of their revenues instead of having tocalculate per-song, per-hour rates like larger companies had to. David Oxenford, a lawyer representing several webcasters, said the next step waslikely an appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of ColumbiaCircuit,but he noted that process could take at least a year. Meanwhile, he said,the prospectsof successfully getting a court to block the decision of the royalty boardjudges is slim. SoundExchange, a nonprofit group that collects the online royalties from webcastersand distributes them to record labels and artists, hailed the ruling in astatement and said it looked forward to working with Internet radio companies in order to ensure that the industry succeeds. Jonathan Potter, the head of the Digital Media Association, which represents several large webcasters including Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft Corp.'s MSN network, said his group was not currently in talks with SoundExchange but may be soon. He said hisgroup and other webcasters would be turning to Congress, where he said hesees "a lot of legislative support." The royalties in question only cover digital transmissions of music, and don't apply to terrestrial radio stations, as traditional radio play is seen as a benefit for record labels by promoting sales of recorded music. Both digital broadcasters and regular radio stations pay a separate royalty to the publishers and composers of music. djc's Jukebox: http://paulmerrell.net:9212 or http://paulmerrell.net:9660 Saturday Evenings 9 to midnight Eastern. My Journal http://livejournal.com/users/djc1 email Or Msn: djc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I C Q Number Is: 4781694 To post a message to the list, send it to winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please send a message to: winamp4theblind-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/winamp4theblind>If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, orthe way the list is being run, do not post them to the list directly. Instead, please contact the list owners at winamp4theblind-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To post a message to the list, send it to winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please send a message to:winamp4theblind-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/winamp4theblind>If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list directly. Instead, please contactthe list owners at winamp4theblind-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition.Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.5.1/765 - Release Date: 4/17/2007 5:20 PMTo post a message to the list, send it to winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please send a message to:winamp4theblind-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/winamp4theblind> If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, orthe way the list is being run, do not post them to the list directly. Instead, please contactthe list owners at winamp4theblind-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition.Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.5.1/765 - Release Date: 4/17/2007 5:20 PM
To post a message to the list, send it to winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please send a message to: winamp4theblind-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/winamp4theblind> If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list directly. Instead, please contact the list owners at winamp4theblind-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx