Small Webcasters Sue RIAA

killthiskid writes "The Webcaster Alliance, a small group of 198 webcasters has sued the RIAA. CNET has the news, along with a growing number of other sites (google news). As many /.'ers know, in 2002 the Library of Congress decided on .07 cents per song (retroactive to '98). After that another bill was passed to protect smaller webcasters. Aparently, many webcasters are still not happy." Their complaint is online.

Comments

Better world through litigation

[Angry White Guy]

Keep the conglomerates and lawyers tied up forever. The rest of us can be free and happy.

Wow

[Mephie]

Congress passed new copyright rules in 1998 that created a new royalty structure, unknown in traditional radio, under which Internet radio stations would pay record labels and artists a fee for playing their music online. Lawmakers didn't specify how much this fee would be, kicking off years of battles.

Now that's quality legislation.

Re:Excuse me for asking, but

[Frymaster]

how do you determine when you are listening to somone's intellectual property and when you are listening to someone's free speech?

that free speech is free as in, uh, speech... not free as in beer. you can speak freely and charge for it. there is no mutual exclusivity. that'll be two dollars, please.