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webcaster & nonprofit music licensing info update

J

jammerdave

This just in, via my Barnabus Road Media email newsletter:

Non-Commercial Webcasters Escape Wrath of

Copyright Royalty Judges



Ok, so you are an IRC 501 (C)(3) organization and you are an online Non-Commercial Webcaster or you are an FCC licensed Non-Commercial radio station that simulcasts its over-the-air broadcast. The March 2, 2007 edict from the Library of Congress established Copyright Royalty Judges granted you, for the most part, no change in what you pay in SoundExchange fees from 2006 through 2010 for digital performance rights.



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Unless you reach a certain threshold which is high for small webcasters but easily reached by many public stations, and then they're nailed to the floor!
 
They still want you to do song reporting. We got a letter from SoundExchange that said, "Oh by the way, you must now retroactively report songs played for a two week period of every calendar quarter from 2004 forward."

As I understand it, it is not just song title and artist that they want. The retroactive part makes it especially distasteful. This will be a huge burden to small webcasters.

Also, I believe the minimum fee will be $500 per year for non-coms. That's OK, I can live with it, but still more than we have been paying. The real killer is the song reporting requirement.
 
Chuck said:
They still want you to do song reporting. We got a letter from SoundExchange that said, "Oh by the way, you must now retroactively report songs played for a two week period of every calendar quarter from 2004 forward."

As I understand it, it is not just song title and artist that they want. The retroactive part makes it especially distasteful. This will be a huge burden to small webcasters.

Also, I believe the minimum fee will be $500 per year for non-coms. That's OK, I can live with it, but still more than we have been paying. The real killer is the song reporting requirement.
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What happens if you don't have the song play records or lose them (if, say, a computer crashes)? Do they have some flat-rate fine?


-- Black Shire
 
Black_Shire said:
What happens if you don't have the song play records or lose them (if, say, a computer crashes)? Do they have some flat-rate fine?


-- Black Shire
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That's a good question. We got a lot of our program material from LP's, not CD's. Worse yet, once stuff was ripped to a hard drive, I have no idea where the origianls are. I'm sure some are in the trunk of my wife's car. That's real handy...

It is going to be a nightmare to reconstruct some of this. I'd rather pay them more money.
 
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