This is an incredibly serious problem to those who listen to online radio stations/webcasts.
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<< The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998 and the Digital Performance Right in Sound Recordings Act of 1995 delegated authority to the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel (CARP) to recommend specifics on recording industry royalty rates. CARP has proposed a retroactive fee dating back to October 1998 and a per-listener per-song fee that will effectively bankrupt independent webcasters. Webcaster portals like Live365.com and Shoutcast.com will close operations. Thousands of independent webcasters will be silenced. The Corporate Webcasters that remain will be forced to infringe on your right to privacy. Your personal information will be used by organizations such as the RIAA for marketing and analysis. In summation, the CARP Proposal allows unfair business trade, infringes on your right to privacy, restricts freedom of speech, and grants The Deep Pocket Corporate Webcaster monopolistic streams of income. >>
<< The Copyright Office is required by Congress to decide whether to accept, reject or modify the CARP's recommended rates by May 21, 2002. If they accept the CARP panel's recommendation, most observers believe that the decision will effectively kill Internet radio as an industry, as the decision could bankrupt all but the three or four largest webcasters. >>
Could you imagine live365 and shoutcast going under?!?!
Please help by going to here, select a pre-made letter, send it to your elected congressman, lobby against this and SPREAD THE WORD.
Don't let CARP take away our independant webcasts!
Click HERE to do your part!
<< The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998 and the Digital Performance Right in Sound Recordings Act of 1995 delegated authority to the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel (CARP) to recommend specifics on recording industry royalty rates. CARP has proposed a retroactive fee dating back to October 1998 and a per-listener per-song fee that will effectively bankrupt independent webcasters. Webcaster portals like Live365.com and Shoutcast.com will close operations. Thousands of independent webcasters will be silenced. The Corporate Webcasters that remain will be forced to infringe on your right to privacy. Your personal information will be used by organizations such as the RIAA for marketing and analysis. In summation, the CARP Proposal allows unfair business trade, infringes on your right to privacy, restricts freedom of speech, and grants The Deep Pocket Corporate Webcaster monopolistic streams of income. >>
<< The Copyright Office is required by Congress to decide whether to accept, reject or modify the CARP's recommended rates by May 21, 2002. If they accept the CARP panel's recommendation, most observers believe that the decision will effectively kill Internet radio as an industry, as the decision could bankrupt all but the three or four largest webcasters. >>
Could you imagine live365 and shoutcast going under?!?!
Please help by going to here, select a pre-made letter, send it to your elected congressman, lobby against this and SPREAD THE WORD.
Don't let CARP take away our independant webcasts!
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