Just received from Live365: > Re: Ask your Representative to cosponsor the Internet Radio Equality > Act! > > Dear Live365 Listener, > > > The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) recently denied webcasters' requests > for a rehearing on its ruling of unfairly high new royalty rates -- a > stunning 300 to 1200 percent increase -- for Internet radio for period > 2006-2010. > > Internet radio is singled out from all other radio, burdened with fees > not paid by AM or FM stations, and at rates at least 3-4 times paid by > satellite and cable radio. The ruling even included absurd minimum of > $500 per station per year to penalize the smallest webcasters with the > highest rates. > > Should this ruling stand, many of your favorite stations will be > silenced. You will find Live365's 260 genres reduced to the same > meager, homogenized list carried on AM/FM radio, because the unfair > rates would drive webcasters in niche genres with unique content > unavailable elsewhere out of business. > > You can, however, help protect your favorite tunes of your favorite DJs > from being silenced. > > The Internet Radio Equality Act (HR 2060) has been introduced in > Congress by Representative Jay Inslee (D-WA). A simple phone call to > your Representative to ask for their support on this Bill will go a > long way toward ensuring your right to diversity and choice in radio. > Better yet, please also write and fax to show how serious you are. They > need to know how much your music means to you. > > Click here for the number of your Representative. Call NOW! > > Sincerely, > Mark Lam > CEO, Live365 > ------------------ > To learn how your single call can make the difference, visit > www.live365.com/choice, and the SaveNetRadio Coalition we formed with > listeners, webcasters, artists, and labels: www.savenetradio.org.
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