[DMCA-Activists] Re[2]: [DMCA_Discuss] Lucky day for webcasters! CARP goes down!

[shell]

As the webmaster for a college radio station (WCSB Cleveland
www.wcsb.org), the fees will be bad......but the thing that will shut
our livestream down are the reporting requirements. They will be
*impossible* for us. This is what we must fight, more than anything.

Shelley Slater
webmistress, WCSB Cleveland
www.wcsb.org
See you in Hell
www.evilshell.net/syih

Wednesday, May 22, 2002, 8:58:54 AM, you wrote:

> Hi Tom,

> We educational webcasters (stations) applaud
> your thoughts on CARP (known as CRAP).

> May we suggest some specific rates that
> would be acceptable to most webcasters:

> 1. Reduce CARP listener rates (fees) by power of 10
>     (i.e. add a "0" to right of decimal point)

> 2. Eliminate, or reduce to $20, (from $500)
>     the minimum annual payment.

> 3. For small webcasters, like educational
>     webcasters, make the 114 copyright
>     fees FIXED, not based on listenership.
>     This would mean limited, or no reporting
>     of songs would be needed.  This would
>     mean that a small webcaster might
>     have their fee set at $20 annually,
>     or $50 annually.  This is very much
>     like the successful part 118 copyright
>     for composers and publishers that
>     has been in effect for over two decades.

>           Thanks for your thoughts.
>                 Fritz

> PS: The Librarian of Congress does not
> have the option of paying ASCAP/BMI/SESAC
> instead of RIAA/ Sound Exchange.

> PPS: RIAA/ Sound Exchange has consistently
> refused to negotiate a contract for copyright
> fees as RIAA has already done with at least
> 26 groups including CPB/NPR.  The Corporation
> for Public Broadcasting/ National Public Radio
> has paid their DMCA copyright fees using YOUR
> Federal TAX Dollars $$$.  You will be unhappy
> to find out that as of May 10, 2002, Steve
> Marks, Senior RIAA/ Sound Exchange Attorney,
> stated NONE of the money collected 
> over the years by RIAA, including
> your TAX DOLLARS (CPB/RIAA) have been distributed
> to ANY Artist.  But ... They (RIAA) are thinking
> about doing that distribution, according to Marks.

>      Fritz

> Fritz Kass
> Intercollegiate Broadcasting System (IBS)
> with 62 continuous years of service to
> educational broadcasters and webcasters.
> http://www.ibsradio.org
> address@hidden
> 367 Windsor Highway, New Windsor, NY 12553
> With 773 educational broadcast members
> (95% of active educational webcasters)
    



> In a message dated 5/21/02 1:56:50 PM, address@hidden writes:

> << Hi:  Good Day!

> Thanks,

> Tom

> http://www.studioforrecording.org/

> http://www.ibiblio.org/studioforrecording/

> http://renotahoe.pm.org/


> On Tuesday 21 May 2002 10:27, Jonathan Watterson wrote:

>> Dear music fans and freedom lovers,

>>

>> The record companies may not be able to tax internet radio after all.

>>

>> CARP, the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel commissioned under the

>> DMCA, presented (in February) its recommended fees and requirements for

>> streaming music, which shut down many webcasters (like WERS

>> <http://www.wers.org/stream.htm>).

>>

>> Today the Register of Copyrights and the Librarian of Congress both

>> agreed to reject CARP's fee plan.

>>

>> More info:

>> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/21/153226&mode=nested&tid=141

>> http://www.copyright.gov/carp/webcasting_rates.html

>>

>> We now need to convince the Copyright Office ( 101 Independence Ave.

>> S.E., Washington, D.C. 20559-6000, telephone (202) 707-3000 ) that fees

>> need to be lower than CARP's recommendation, not higher, and that the

>> proceeds should go not to RIAA (the record companies) but to ASCAP and

>> BMI (the songwriters).*

>>

>> J >>

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