The station is for my own personal use. I just choose to share
knowledge of it's existance with a couple hundred of my closest friends.
:-) If you go to the Shoutcast site you can read the Terms of
Use/Disclaimer.
Alot of my content comes from non-commercial "home tapes", recorded in
people's kitchens and house parties. There is no copyright on those
recordings.
Toby
David Kilpatrick wrote:
>
> on 3/1/2001 3:39 am, Toby Rider at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Yes, I have a bunch of mainland Scottish atists I'm trying to work into
> > the rotation, plus others I have on my list to digitize. Most of what is
> > playing now it stuff I already had handy in mp3 format.
> >
> >
> How does this work? I've got about half a dozen genuinely Scottish mp3
> tracks on my mp3 page - though none of them are what people call celtic
> these days, they're Border and NE ballads. I have an mp3.com 'radio station'
> called Border Sounds which also uses whatever Scottish Border-related
> material I can find.
>
> However, it must already exist on mp3.com for me to do this, and converting
> any existing recording to mp3 format or RealAudio and placing it on internet
> is a breach of copyright without express permission. So far I have only been
> able to obtain permission from artists whose recordings I have made
> personally - other record labels are not interested in allowing any comer to
> uplift their stock in trade and stick it on internet!
>
> So the 'have on my list to digitize' statement is interesting. How do you go
> about obtaining copyright clearance?
>
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