[DMCA-Activists] Re: Re[2]: [DMCA_Discuss] WCSB Cleveland/ DMCA Reporting under 114

[IBSHQ]

Good Morning Shelley,

Thank you for being a long time
members of the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System (IBS)
with 62 continuous years of service to educational radio.

I assure you there will be NO extensive reporting requirements
for educational stations.  The reporting requirements
will not exceed those that you now do under Section 118
of Copyright Regulations (ASCAP/BMI/SESAC).

Reporting requirements have already been waived
for all CPB/NPR stations with full time paid 
staffs under 10.  

You might also note that as a STATE owned
school under the Eleventh Amendment to the
U. S. Constitution that you would not be
subject to RIAA "enforcement" and there
is NO COPYRIGHT OFFICE ENFORCEMENT
provisions under DMCA.

WCSB is a special station in many ways
including being members of IBS.

     Fritz

(Fritz Kass - IBS Operations)


In a message dated 5/22/02 11:17:22 PM, address@hidden writes:

<< 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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