[DMCA-Activists] Re: [DMCA_Discuss] Lucky day for webcasters! CARP goes down!

[tom poe]

Hi:  Good Day!
Thanks,
Tom
http://www.studioforrecording.org/
http://www.ibiblio.org/studioforrecording/
http://renotahoe.pm.org/

On Tuesday 21 May 2002 10:27, Jonathan Watterson wrote:
> Dear music fans and freedom lovers,
>
> The record companies may not be able to tax internet radio after all.
>
> CARP, the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel commissioned under the
> DMCA, presented (in February) its recommended fees and requirements for
> streaming music, which shut down many webcasters (like WERS
> <http://www.wers.org/stream.htm>).
>
> Today the Register of Copyrights and the Librarian of Congress both
> agreed to reject CARP's fee plan.
>
> More info:
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/21/153226&mode=nested&tid=141
> http://www.copyright.gov/carp/webcasting_rates.html
>
> We now need to convince the Copyright Office ( 101 Independence Ave.
> S.E., Washington, D.C. 20559-6000, telephone (202) 707-3000 ) that fees
> need to be lower than CARP's recommendation, not higher, and that the
> proceeds should go not to RIAA (the record companies) but to ASCAP and
> BMI (the songwriters).*
>
> J
>
> * M4d pr0ps to Jim of the Big Ego <http://bigego.com> for pointing out
> the issue of RIAA vs. ASCAP et al.