The Americans can invent a two-stage smart-bomb. It will separate on the way down. The first stage blows up about 2000 pounds of high explosive fire-hell from the heavens, and then the second stage flutters down in a larger circle with clotting bandages and pop tarts for any collatoral casualties.
Only through killing power will some people understand healing. RTCW! -ghandi-
Listen to the transcript. I'm the second caller. They literally cut me off when I started to comment that the broadcast stations should also pay the artists.
BMI, ASCAP, and SESAC have reasonable rates, yet still pay the composers well. This is because all users of the music share the payment burden, not just the webcaster alone.
Having the webcasters alone pay all the singers is like making only Volkswagon drivers pay for all the gasoline for every car on the highway.
My web station has been on the air for over four years straight. This decision was supposed to have been finalized by the LOC a couple of other times in the last few years, so this delay is no real surprise.
It is clear to me that any and all delay in the process helps the RIAA members and harms the webcasters for two reasons: During the three-and-a-half (so far) years wait for the price of music to be set, it has been impossible for a webcaster to make a real business plan, to create a spreadsheet that describes their business in numbers, to pitch potential investors, or to sign any serious contracts with advertisers or other funders, thus crippling the fledgling industry. On the other hand, the record industry needs lots of time to get their act together to move in with their own outfits.
As a webcater, I am coming to realize that unlike most of the people in broadcasting, I am a BUYER and not a freeloader. I am going to demand some respect from any label trying to get on my station. Tribute even.
I am afraid that the RIAA is going to price their member's works out of the market. If I can buy gas at one station for $1.50 or go next door and pay $15.00, where do you think I will tend to pull in to fill up?
Today I was on Paul Allen's TechTV when the statement from the Librarian of Congress came out. I deleted a RIAA member property song from the play rotation on my station, on camera, and they aired it! Click Click "Well, no royalties for Lowen and Navarro, no promotion, no exposure, no airplay, no CD sales. Too bad. Too expensive."
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Only through killing power will some people understand healing. RTCW! -ghandi-
BMI, ASCAP, and SESAC have reasonable rates, yet still pay the composers well. This is because all users of the music share the payment burden, not just the webcaster alone.
Having the webcasters alone pay all the singers is like making only Volkswagon drivers pay for all the gasoline for every car on the highway.
It is clear to me that any and all delay in the process helps the RIAA members and harms the webcasters for two reasons: During the three-and-a-half (so far) years wait for the price of music to be set, it has been impossible for a webcaster to make a real business plan, to create a spreadsheet that describes their business in numbers, to pitch potential investors, or to sign any serious contracts with advertisers or other funders, thus crippling the fledgling industry. On the other hand, the record industry needs lots of time to get their act together to move in with their own outfits.
As a webcater, I am coming to realize that unlike most of the people in broadcasting, I am a BUYER and not a freeloader. I am going to demand some respect from any label trying to get on my station. Tribute even.
I am afraid that the RIAA is going to price their member's works out of the market. If I can buy gas at one station for $1.50 or go next door and pay $15.00, where do you think I will tend to pull in to fill up?
Today I was on Paul Allen's TechTV when the statement from the Librarian of Congress came out. I deleted a RIAA member property song from the play rotation on my station, on camera, and they aired it! Click Click "Well, no royalties for Lowen and Navarro, no promotion, no exposure, no airplay, no CD sales. Too bad. Too expensive."