I worked for a webcaster for a while and handled this issue. ASCAP and BMI
have agreements for webcasters. Minimum royalties are around $500 per year
with several payment options to chose from.
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sjf
George Matyjewicz writes:
>At 03:53 PM 9/15/98 +1000, Bruce Young so eloquently stated:
>>Hi
>>
>>You can tell by the number of my posts today that, while I've far too much
>>for one person to do, I've got the "flusters" about where to start. So this
>>is displacement activity to make me feel like I'm doing something ;)
>>
>>Now to my question. :)
>>
>>There are a plethora of radio stations that also "webcast" their output.
>>There are quite a few internet only "radio" stations. In the back of my
>>mind I seem to recall that all is not settled however, with the copyright
>>issue and artists royalties with regard to the webcasting aspect.
>>
>>There are several community radio stations in my area as I'm on the
>>boundary between 3 local shires (councils, counties?). I was thinking of
>>approaching one of them with the idea of webcasting using Real audio (or
>>NetShow or both).
>>
>>I've done some live events recently and all went well. (one had the faculty
>>Dean talking so I was a little bit nervous about it. ;-) ie stuff that up
>>and stuff up any future chance of doing it again.)
>>
>>So I'm not so much worried about technical issues but rather copyright
>>ones. I had seen at least one link to a radio station from the Realnet site
>>that seems to have taken itself off the "air" (net) until this is resolved.
>>
>>thanks
>>Bruce
>
>You may want to contact the organizations that monitor that for
>the artists -- BMI, ASCAP, and SESAC.
>http://www.bmi.com/home.html
>http://www.ascap.com/
>http://www.sesac.com/
>
>I don't know what happens with radio, but I do know artists got
>killed with tapes when they came out -- no residuals (my cousin
>is a famous songwriter and his son is a lawyer dealing with the
>music business). Wouldn't be surprised if they get screwed.
>
>Keep us posted.
>
>G
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