Impact of Royalty Increases on Internet Radio (15)

Question and answer period part 6.

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• house
• small
• business
• committee
• democrats
• nydia
• velazquez
• webcasting
• internet
• radio
• copyright
• royalty
• board

[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?

[star1079fm]

To expect Internet Radio to pay the highest royalty rate of Satellite, Terrestrial Radio and TV, is just crazy, as Internet Radio has the least in revenue of the other media.

[RandomPaths]

SoundExchange has spent the last year trying to make people believe that large webcasters should pay big money, ignoring the small webcasters (mom and pop outfits that work out of their home). PLEASE NOTE: Without the large webcaster, the small guys can't stream...many trade streaming and storage costs in exchange for the large webcaster running their ads on the little stations. That's what makes them a "commercial" station- the mom and pops are actually non-profits.

[RandomPaths]

What most people don't know is that SoundExchange's roots are in the RIAA (major labels), and still owes most of $7 million that the RIAA loaned them- not an impartial collection organization. It should not even be allowed to collect royalties. And speaking of major labels, they and the RIAA have spent hundreds of thousands in political donations to color the votes of candidates and political officeholders. How can a small mom and pop station or even a large webcaster fight political bribery?

[Johns805]

Hi: I watched all of the video clips. I think it would be a good experience for anyone interested to set aside the time to view them all in sequence. That way, those who find this matter to be important will be better informed about the larger picture and our respective places in it. We can then discuss all this amongst ourselves as I expect I will do on the Live365 forums. My thanks to those responsible for posting this hearing on youtube! Best Regards! ~John

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[flyduck1]

I don't want to watch all video's (too long) but was it postitive or negative?