Save Internet Radio
I’ve been enjoying streams of music from various Internet Radio programs for several years and it’s great. I’ve heard so much music I would never have known about and reconnected to music I love that I hadn’t heard in years.
But this may all come to an end, from “Save Our Internet Radio”:
On March 1, 2007 the US Copyright Office stunned the Internet radio industry by releasing a ruling on performance royalty fees that are based exclusively on the number of people tuned into an Internet radio station, rather than on a portion of the station’s revenue. They discarded all evidence presented by webcasters about the potentially crippling effect on the industry of such a rate structure, and rubber-stamped the rates requested by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America).
You can read more about it on the Save Our Internet Radio Blog. Please sign the online petition and contact you federal representatives now!