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buick59

Hi,
I hope that someone who is familiar with the new Internet Streaming rules can help me out with some info or point me to a source where I can get the info in plain English not legalese.
The new rules state that in any three hour period you can not....
Program more than three songs from the same recording (that means no more “album sides”)
· Program more than two songs in a row from the same album
· Program more than four songs from the same artist
· Program more than three songs in a row from the same artist or anthology/boxed set
· You may not publish (in print or on a website) or preannounce when a particular recording will be played.
Take a request and play it immediately.
I know several on air people of both the student and volunteer variety and the tell me that they are exempt from any of these new rules because they are a college station. They say they do not input any info about what they play and there are no restrictions on anything they play or in what order they play it.
My understanding is that there are no exceptions. There is one set of rules and they are for everyone.
Thanks for any info you can give me.
 
From what I understand, there is no exceptions to the DMCA, but you'll find plenty of lawbreakers out there who either do not send the proper data to listener's players or abide by the repeat interval rules for artists and albums. While I streamed on Live365 they had filters in place to insure their streams complied with the rules or they would be removed from the directory until they stream returned to compliance.

As far as I understand, terrestrial radio stations are not exempt from the compliance rules for streaming. All of the Cox Radio I see streaming appear to comply with DMCA. I can't speak for other stations, especially those like non-commercial college stations, but I assume they are held to the same rules.
 
You can go to live 365 where i have two stations and they have all the rules but yes the rules are the same for everyone .


huey
live365.com/powerradioonline
 
buick59 said:
Hi,
I hope that someone who is familiar with the new Internet Streaming rules can help me out with some info or point me to a source where I can get the info in plain English not legalese.
The new rules state that in any three hour period you can not....
Program more than three songs from the same recording (that means no more “album sides”)
· Program more than two songs in a row from the same album
· Program more than four songs from the same artist
· Program more than three songs in a row from the same artist or anthology/boxed set
· You may not publish (in print or on a website) or preannounce when a particular recording will be played.
Take a request and play it immediately.
I know several on air people of both the student and volunteer variety and the tell me that they are exempt from any of these new rules because they are a college station. They say they do not input any info about what they play and there are no restrictions on anything they play or in what order they play it.
My understanding is that there are no exceptions. There is one set of rules and they are for everyone.
Thanks for any info you can give me.
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If you continue to believe what college students tell you...especially junior or community college students....to them a red light means go, a student library is a place to drink and party in, and after the complete their political science at some place called DeSales University...that they'll have a $125,000 a year job waiting for them when they get out...you'll be as educated as they are. There always the exceptions....as the rules pertain to the rest of us.
 
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Thank you for your commentary. Nowhere in my post did I say I believe what college students tell me.
My post did ask for information. Do you have any to impart ?
I hope you feel better now.
 
You said students that work at the college right?..(First post).....told you the rules didn't pertain to them. They were exempt. And I wouldn't be surprised if they told you that, whether they knew the rules or not.
 
Thanks to all who took the time to answer my post with information
I really appreciate it.

To the people that just feel the need to show off their comedic talent and /or answer posts just because they're there, NOT SO MUCH !
 
You could always talk to SoundExchange, they are somehow allowed to make special deals with stations/networks that allow them to get around the laws that aren't even really in place yet. I would have to say just play whatever you want, and wait until the laws are actually being enforced to deal with them then. But do, by all means, comply with proper SoundExchange formatted reporting (which is taken from a lengthy CRB pdf, you can find on their site, or SoundExchange's site), and license your station with them if you're even slightly commercial venture.

For hobbiest you don't have much to lose, but if you ever do get noticed enough for SoundExchange to care about, you could expect to lose all hardware even possibly related to the broadcast. Hopefully this ongoing crap will be settled once and for all soon. Net-radio companies are literally spending millions per year fighting SoundExchange.

Guess who pays for SoudnExchange's legal and lobbying teams? The artists, out of the royalties they should be getting. Why do you think nobody is really getting much royalties from them yet? Cos they've run up a 300+ million bill, last I heard. That's going to take a LOT of spins to pay off, and they show no signs of slowing down that nasty spending habit.
 
radiowayne notes that BUICK59 earlier said, in part, I hope that someone who is familiar with the new Internet Streaming rules can help me out with some info or point me to a source where I can get the info in plain English not legalese.


radiowayne notes that the Internet Streaming rules that he stated are not new but have been in place since the DMCA was passed in 1998.

But, then again,he could be wrong.

Wayne G. aka radiowayne
 
DMCA calls for royalties to be paid. The next step is litigating into law something that defines what that should be... which is the whole hang-up over the past erm..... decade now? Crazy.
 
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