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Internet Radio Law Question
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Got a q about royalties. Back in the day I was looking into costs and shit for shroomery radio. I'm not sure what the RIAA charges in fees for each song someone is allowed to broadcast... but I do remember there were services for which you could pay a set monthly fee to cover it all.

This royalty.. is it only supposed to be paid to songs in copyright? I hear stations like SOMFM have 10's of thousands of dollars a month in operating costs. I'm sure a big chunk of that is to the RIAA.

So... theoretically if someone was to host an Internet Radio Station... playing either music that has no copyright, or has some sort of expressed concent from the owner, you wouldn't have to pay SHIT for royalties and licensing... correct?

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Re: Internet Radio Law Question [Re: BrAiN]
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I'd imagine...if its not copyrighted, its public domain, I'd imagine.


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Re: Internet Radio Law Question [Re: Senor_Doobie]
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As far as consent from the artist on copyrighted material, that would depend on whether they own all of the copyrights, not just the ones for the writing of the music, but for those of the recording as well...


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Re: Internet Radio Law Question [Re: Senor_Doobie]
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Ja. Well. That's what I'm saying. I'd probably have to go to the recording companies or whoever. If you're playing music that's sort of underground, or not that big.. I'm sure it would be easy to find plenty of music you could get for free strictly to broadcast. Any small label who's smart should know that it's a small price to pay for getting ppl to listen to shit.

I mean.. fuck the big labels anyway. Who the hell wants to listen to garbage. It all works out in the end.

So I'm just saying.. I can't believe ppl like Soma who play "underground" music have such high royalty fees. Lord knows how many cd's I've bought because I heard someone on them.

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Re: Internet Radio Law Question [Re: BrAiN]
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i'd be amazed if the riaa cared about internet radio.

fucking amazed


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Re: Internet Radio Law Question [Re: BrAiN]
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I like the way you are thinking here


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“Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day.”  -- Thomas Jefferson

The greatest sin of mankind is ignorance.

The press takes [Trump] literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally. --Salena Zeto (9/23/16)

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Re: Internet Radio Law Question [Re: truekimbo2]
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truekimbo2 said:
i'd be amazed if the riaa cared about internet radio.

fucking amazed


Where've you been the past 5 years? :wink:

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Re: Internet Radio Law Question [Re: BrAiN]
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you're joking? what does the most popular internet radio stations have, like 2000 listeners at once maybe?

they're going to sue over that?


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Re: Internet Radio Law Question [Re: truekimbo2]
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truekimbo2 said:
they're going to sue over that?


unfortunatly, yes..  :cuckoo:

except in this case it is the Copyright Royalty Board increasing their royalty rates by up to 1200% for internet radio stations.

http://www.savenetradio.org/


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Re: Internet Radio Law Question [Re: truekimbo2]
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truekimbo2 said:
you're joking? what does the most popular internet radio stations have, like 2000 listeners at once maybe?

they're going to sue over that?


What, you think they're just worried about college kids and preteens? Why would they sue individuals and not people who broadcast?

http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/03/05/riaa-targets-internet-radio

http://www.out-law.com/page-1778

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/6/21/73329/8778

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Re: Internet Radio Law Question [Re: johnm214]
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SomaFM gets about 3000 listeners at a time on average... That might not sound like a lot. But if you consider about 1 PENNY per listener per song that's played... that 30 bucks per song... about 20 songs per hour. 600 bucks an hour = 14400 bucks a day.

You still think that's small potatoes? That's just *ONE* internet radio station.

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