AT Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:52:23 Whit wrote:

>Thanks for the explanation, Alan...this is precisely why I'm shutting down.
>My annual broadcasting package is expiring at the end of May, so I need to
>get out before the new rates plus the yearly $500 fee kick in.
>
>My station was always an expense to me and was not anything that I ever 
>made
>a cent on.  It was something I created because of my love of the music.  I
>wanted others to hear it.
>
>This rate hike is unreasonable and it is highly unlikely that most of the
>artists I played on the station will ever see any royalties paid to them.
>Beyonce, Timbaland and Fergie will probably get paid, but I doubt
>independents like Class Three Overbite or Wiretree will ever see penny
>number one.  Frustrating...

I control the rights to EVERYTHING on my radio station....and under this 
legislation I would still have to pay a fee. And there has still been no 
explanation as to how I am to get paid for the material once the fees are 
collected from everyone who is broadcasting. I should be exempt from playing 
my own music....but if I'm not (as the case seems to be)....I should be 
getting paid for what was played when the royalties are collected and 
divvied back up.


Jaimie Vernon,
President, Bullseye Records
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