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Basically, to legally broadcast music you must: A) Obtain permissions from the copyright holder (usually the publisher, record label) of the *composition*. ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC offer compulsory licenses for all of the artists they represent, fees based upon roughly how many listeners your station has & how many songs in your broadcast are by artists/composers they represent. B) Obtain permissions from the copyright holder of the particular *recordi...

Here is the response from my friend. I would venture to say that if we were reporting to them then someone was paying a fee. Sean... >>>> Sean, In MTSU's case, I think their ASCAP/BMI license covers everything, including WMOT and WMTS... I know WMTS didn't have to pay ASCAP/BMI fees....but..they had to report their playlists to them...which was a pain in the ass.... -M Never give a sucker an even break WC Fields --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/arc...

...; <icecast@xiph.org> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 11:33 AM Subject: RE: [icecast] legalities of streaming <p>> Basically, to legally broadcast music you must: > > A) Obtain permissions from the copyright holder (usually the publisher, record > label) of the *composition*. ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC offer compulsory licenses > for all of the artists they represent, fees based upon roughly how many > listeners your station has & how many songs in your broadcast are by > artists/composers they represent. > > B) Obtain permissions from the copyright holder of th...

...py, but broadcast (in the traditional sense) and via the web are not extensions of that ownership. Case in point, Station buys Artist foo's disc and the artist is compenstated at x rate. Artist foo gets played n times. Does it make sense that artist foo is only compensated at rate x? No. ASCAP,BMI, and SESAC receieve fees from the stations so that artist foo is compensated to a certain extent for n number of plays. That said, ASCAP and BMI determine the royalty payments pretty much the same, SESAC has their own formula for determining the payments. Again, your purchase of music grant...

...es to the record labels. However, > > we are a very small radio station with a very small webcasting audiance. We > > don't pay any royalties to broadcast over the air. > > Then in other words, you're stealing music even for your online > broadcast. You _must_ pay ASCAP, BMI, and/or SESAC in order to > broadcast _anything_ over _any_ medium. If you're not paying that, then > you are in dangerous trouble of litigation from those companies. They > can and will go after you. hell, they sued the girl scouts and won for > them singing around campfire...

...made to pay some royalties to the record labels. However, > we are a very small radio station with a very small webcasting audiance. We > don't pay any royalties to broadcast over the air. Then in other words, you're stealing music even for your online broadcast. You _must_ pay ASCAP, BMI, and/or SESAC in order to broadcast _anything_ over _any_ medium. If you're not paying that, then you are in dangerous trouble of litigation from those companies. They can and will go after you. hell, they sued the girl scouts and won for them singing around campfires. > My belief i...

...s as many as 10 songs, we broadcast for about 180 days a year, 20x10x180*$0.004 = $140. We are not talking big bucks here, it certainly does not seems like reason to stop webcasting. > > Then in other words, you're stealing music even for your online > > broadcast. You _must_ pay ASCAP, BMI, and/or SESAC in order to > > broadcast _anything_ over _any_ medium. If you're not paying that, then > > you are in dangerous trouble of litigation from those companies. They > > can and will go after you. hell, they sued the girl scouts and won for > > them sin...

Last year I arranged with my college radio station and ITS department to webcast the radiostation using icecast. The webcast has been a wonderful success so far. My problem now is not technical, but political. A few days ago I recieved the following message from the station director: ================================================================== hey josh, i talked to [faculty advisor]

Hi, Is there any Royalty one needs to pay when using the inbuilt exisimg asterisk on hold music or when using any other mp3 from a music album. I think we need to pay for the later, but I am not sure if we need to pay for the inbuilt asterisk(freepbx) on hold music. -- Deepak --------------------------------- Yahoo! Answers - Get better answers from someone who

Is the new NIN Ghosts music (free download) safe for MOH? Justin ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

I have some questions about Icecast logging... How close is Icecast logging to the Apache logging format? Can you customize the output options like Apache? We've used several tools to process our Icecast logs in the past, including Webalizer and Urchin. Urchin seems to report some slightly erroneous data. What have others used for processing Icecast's access.log file? Hunter --- >8

...know what to make of it. Would we > have to pay $0.07 per song the DJ played? How about a > live performance with all original material? Also see: http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/webcasting.html I'm not sure what the rates are, but essentially you have to pay flat % royalties to ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC in the U.S. for performance royalities, but the DMCA also imposes these translations of physical reporoduction royalties for webcasts as well (normal radio doesn't have these). Of course, live performances with original music is fine as long as you have the permission of the co...

Does someone have a link to step-by-step instructions to making the Line-In on the console sound card a MOH source? I know this has to work somehow. Chris Coulthurst <mailto:chris@shuksan.com> chris@shuksan.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20050512/4a3c3025/attachment.htm

> On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 23:52, Mihail Egorov wrote: > > 1. How can I identify disconnect due to low <queue-size>. Suppose, I have > > enabled loglevel=4 (debug). Suppose, I have network jam. What shall I see at > > error.log? > > There is a log message that signifies the removal of a listener for > being too slow and that is > "Client has fallen too far

Hi gang, In 500 words or less (if possible), please explain what is a legal music-on-hold file? My boss hates the stuff provided with the distribution and I figure that I'm asking for trouble if I take my Les Mis tracks and run them through Audacity and SOX to make new files. Thanks in advance Danny Nicholas -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was

Hi list, This might not be the right list to bring this subject up on, however I thought it might be a good place to start. What are the current legalities in relation to non commercial music streams, or more accurately put non profit streams, and is this currently being seriously policed? Basically I am wanting to start up my own online station, but I don't really want to get my butt

Greetings! I've been asked to set-up an Icecast stream / live webcam for a small club, and I'm worried about what kind of payments the owner would have to make to stream the club's music over the internet. I found this article: <http://www.copyright.gov/carp/webcasting_rates_final.html> but I still don't know what to make of it. Would we have to pay $0.07 per song the DJ

...non commercial music >> streams, or more accurately put non profit streams, and is this >> currently being seriously policed? > >Yes it is being seriously policed. This is controlled by copyright >law; there are three companies that basically control all music >copyrights; ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC. From what I understand, you will >need a "compulsory" license from each, and they now have additional >royalty payments and reporting requirements for the songs you play. >jwz had a good write-up of this (before the big royalty agreement >though). It's a...

James Haigh <james.r.haigh at gmail.com> > Note that 50% is silly, lossless compression is asymptotic. I 2nd Martin, > once you have high-density entropy, there's little more 'air' to > squeeze-out. 10-20% would be worth it if it helps adoption, although it's > worth studying how close we already are to the asymptote of entropy. How > much would be saved? How

...There's no >encoding. I'm taking files, spitting them out over the network, and who >cares what happens. Now I have to pay for that? That's what I'm saying.. I don't think it would hold water in court. >You don't think Fraunhofer will try this? :) Live365 pays ASCAP, BMI, >and is signed up for the compulsory RIAA license. Even though you'd >think they wouldnt' have to. I guess they do it on behalf of their >users. I think shoutcast pays this as well. FhG might try it.. until they butt heads with someone with the resources to say "ok,...