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Re: Monday, July 8, 2002
Yup, if you webcast it you gotta pay. Sound Exchange is the RIAA's agent to collect the cash. October 20 is the date webcasters have to retroactively pay up from 1998 to present. Do the math, none of these guys will be able to afford this. Corporate folks like Clear Channel will be all that's left of US webcasting, everything else is gone. The didn't buy my argument on caching either, as they brush it pay and side with the RIAA that a cache is a digital copy and even they you don't use it, you made a copy hence you have to pay for that. The copyright office report is about 71 pages, funny they picked Yahoo, because the broadcast.com part of Yahoo isn't streaming any more. Local re-broadcasting of stations isn't something Yahoo is interested in doing any more. So, the "model" broke. Paging Larry Lessig...webcasting needs you...
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