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[DMCA-Activists] Re[2]: [DMCA_Discuss] Lucky day for webcasters! CARP go
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[DMCA-Activists] Re[2]: [DMCA_Discuss] Lucky day for webcasters! CARP goes down! |
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Wed, 22 May 2002 23:17:12 -0400 |
As the webmaster for a college radio station (WCSB Cleveland
www.wcsb.org), the fees will be bad......but the thing that will shut
our livestream down are the reporting requirements. They will be
*impossible* for us. This is what we must fight, more than anything.
Shelley Slater
webmistress, WCSB Cleveland
www.wcsb.org
See you in Hell
www.evilshell.net/syih
Wednesday, May 22, 2002, 8:58:54 AM, you wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> We educational webcasters (stations) applaud
> your thoughts on CARP (known as CRAP).
> May we suggest some specific rates that
> would be acceptable to most webcasters:
> 1. Reduce CARP listener rates (fees) by power of 10
> (i.e. add a "0" to right of decimal point)
> 2. Eliminate, or reduce to $20, (from $500)
> the minimum annual payment.
> 3. For small webcasters, like educational
> webcasters, make the 114 copyright
> fees FIXED, not based on listenership.
> This would mean limited, or no reporting
> of songs would be needed. This would
> mean that a small webcaster might
> have their fee set at $20 annually,
> or $50 annually. This is very much
> like the successful part 118 copyright
> for composers and publishers that
> has been in effect for over two decades.
> Thanks for your thoughts.
> Fritz
> PS: The Librarian of Congress does not
> have the option of paying ASCAP/BMI/SESAC
> instead of RIAA/ Sound Exchange.
> PPS: RIAA/ Sound Exchange has consistently
> refused to negotiate a contract for copyright
> fees as RIAA has already done with at least
> 26 groups including CPB/NPR. The Corporation
> for Public Broadcasting/ National Public Radio
> has paid their DMCA copyright fees using YOUR
> Federal TAX Dollars $$$. You will be unhappy
> to find out that as of May 10, 2002, Steve
> Marks, Senior RIAA/ Sound Exchange Attorney,
> stated NONE of the money collected
> over the years by RIAA, including
> your TAX DOLLARS (CPB/RIAA) have been distributed
> to ANY Artist. But ... They (RIAA) are thinking
> about doing that distribution, according to Marks.
> Fritz
> Fritz Kass
> Intercollegiate Broadcasting System (IBS)
> with 62 continuous years of service to
> educational broadcasters and webcasters.
> http://www.ibsradio.org
> address@hidden
> 367 Windsor Highway, New Windsor, NY 12553
> With 773 educational broadcast members
> (95% of active educational webcasters)
> In a message dated 5/21/02 1:56:50 PM, address@hidden writes:
> << 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 >>
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