Impact of Royalty Increases on Internet Radio (17)

[GeoSv]

Is there a place to read the the text of these proceedings? Everyone doesn't have high speed and this is time-consuming. Will the committee take up this legislation or not?

I wonder if the Copyright board is the amateur show? Paying royalties if a station has no income? How about applying the exact same royalties to all radio including AM and FM.

[ronhouston999]

My Station Will Stay opean and we dont sell Artist Music Internet Radio is the Best way to Promote Artist Music.

[zunipus]

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. July 15th Internet radio will literally be profoundly and permanently damaged 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.

[essial]

Heres the key issue; Record Labels are becomming obsolete. Will net radio station shut down? Yes. Will the majority of people find other (posibbly legal, but most likely not) ways to get music? Definatly.

[essial]

Sorry, spelling errors :) Definatly = Definitely, station = stations, posibbly = possibly. Wow I need sleep :)

[RandomPaths]

Good analogy made by Congressman Inslee, comparing the work that went into a Shuttle that crashed and the work Congress put into the Internet Radio issue, and the pending crash. Another analogy: Small webcasters are the cars, but large webcasters are the wheels. Both have to be there. Small webcasters rely on large ones (like Live365) to provide streaming.

[RandomPaths]

If Satellite, Terrestrial, and Internet Radio all paid performance royalties, those royalties would only have to be around 3% instead of the IREA 7.5 or SoundExchange's 11+%. All broadcasters should pay the same rate. Even public radio, but that rate should be extremently low (with all radio participating, it would be.)

[star1079fm]

Slim to none on getting this passed by July 15th. Looks like Internet Radio is going away for awhile. Johnson doesn't seem to understand that Artists are currently getting paid royalties, just not at the new rate. Lights will start going out on or about July 15th. Percentage of revenue would be fair to all.