Sign the petition here:
http://www.savethestreams.org/
"On Friday March 2nd, the U.S. government (specifically, the Copyright
Royalty Board, or "CRB") announced its determination of the royalty
rates Internet radio webcasters must pay the owners of sound recording
copyrights to license the music they play for the years 2006-2010. The
owners of these sound recording copyrights are, in the vast majority of
cases, recording companies ("labels").
While successful webcasters which have built loyal audiences can
usually cover most of their costs from their revenue (and sometimes
even make a little profit), these new rates will almost certainly
destroy the Internet radio industry, as they amount to well over 100%
of even the most-successful webcasters' online radio revenues. In other
words, these fees are grotesquely disproportionate to any other expense
a webcaster would normally face, and certain to bankrupt him or her."
--
Mike Anderson
'FREE RADICAL
RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s.
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