Impact of Royalty Increases on Internet Radio (9)

[zunipus]

Part 4:

Support Internet radio immediately by contacting every US Senate and House legislator you can lay your hands on. Tell them to support the Internet Radio Equality Act, H.R. 2060 in the House and S. 1353 in the Senate. This act must be made law before July 15th or Internet radio will literally be destroyed permanently due to the outrageously exaggerated royalty rates perpetrated by the Copyright Royalty Board.

Find out more about this genocide of music diversity at SaveNetRadio[DOT]org.

[zunipus]

Part 3:

How could such people dare to speak for small musicians. Shame on all of you. Your testimonies were nothing less than evil deeds, a shocking act of cutting the throats of small musicians. This is grotesque.

Everyone in the USA: This insanity has to stop. It it time to stop screwing over public broadcasting at every turn. It is time to stop dead forever governmental intervention that is utterly strangling diversity in the music industry.

[zunipus]

Part 2:

Mr. Lee in particular is out of his mind. He talks out of one side of his mouth that he wants to promote and preserve royalties for artists, which of course everyone considers a worthwhile and critical endeavor, then out of the other side of his mouth he is condemning to death the very method for making royalties possible for all small musicians that are abandoned by the corrupt music industry. For most small artists there is only one single source for royalties: Internet radio.

[zunipus]

My comments Part 1:

Disgust and nausea is all I can feel having heard the corporate-line comments by Silverman, Fink and Lee. Could they have expressed themselves any better as illogical sycophants to the corrupt US music business that destroys diversity and promotes parasitism of artists for the sake of lining executive's pockets?

[cjpopp]

I love all of this talk of "BigNetRadio". I've had my station for over 7 years, yet am still $40,000 out of my own pocket and 99% of all revenues currently are from donations from listeners.

BTW - Donations are considered income/profit by SoundExchange.

The cost of running a station is approx $2 per listener at this time.

Chris J. Popp

9412

Classic Rock That Never Stops

[star1079fm]

Backroom deals with SoundExchange is not fair. The deal with SoundExchange should be available to all Internet Broadcasters. This should go to Congress so they can set nullify the CRB rate, and make it a win situation for broadcaster, artist and listeners.

[sorcerykid]

And the question that comes to mind -- if SoundExchange can negotiate rates and terms separate from those mandated by the CRB, then why in the world do we even have a Section 114 and 112 statutory license? Apparently SoundExchange has the power to strike reasonable deals directly with Webcasters anyway. Not to mention, backroom deals between Webcasters and SoundExchange, only proves that the statutory license itself is not a realistic option for the industry.

[dizn0g]

This is needed to aid small webcasters who do not have the weight and lawyers to negotiate directly with SoundExchange.  Additionally to get a lower rate what does a station need to give up in order to do so? It is also possible to negotiate directly with the record labels, but once again, who can? And how many spins would I need to give up in order to get a lower rate?