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| From | Marty Rudnick <mrudnick@marturo.com> |
| Subject | Re: Shutting Down |
| Date | Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:07:35 -0700 |
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What about myspace? You can play your own music there with no
penalties. Seems like a legal precedent.
Marty
Michael Coxe wrote:
> Swim Taxi wrote:
>
>> I wrote to Senator Dianne Feinstein about Royalty Board decision.
>> This was the response I received.
>
>
> Asking Dianne Feinstein is akin to asking the RIAA itself.
>
> Let's face it, the RIAA/SoundExchange want to reduce the number of
> webcasting stations to make collections easier. Most of their revenue
> will come from Microsoft, Yahoo & the like anyway. As stated here only
> 2% comes from the small webcasters. And unless you sign up with
> SoundExchange they get to keep any revenue when your song plays.
> It's all about chokeholds. Freedom of choice hurts big operators.
>
> There appear to be a number of issues here, some constititional
> & some technical. Jamie's issue about paying even if you fully own
> the music (ie, all rights). Sounds like restraint of trade. What
> about music released under Creative Commons or other licening scheme?
> What's a webcast vs. a download vs. a podcast? And what about podcasts
> anyway - how are they affected? Will this generate yet new means of
> delivery? Put streaming on the client side & is it no longer a webcast?
> Technology is a rapidly moving target, as the past 10 years has shown.
>
> - michael
>
>
>
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