[DMCA-Activists] Re: [DMCA_Discuss] IBS wants to help webcasters!

[IBSHQ]

Hi Tom,

You are right we need a media list.

IBS is usually so busy dealing with its
776 member stations and fighting
a few battles, like DMCA/ RIAA, that
we miss the picture of public opinion.

Do you have any suggestions of Listservs
we might join and media e-mail addresses
we might put on our "new" list?

IBS does not currently provide information
to non-members (including non-educational
webcasters) except as we participate in
other's listservs.

Our web site has resources available to
all (http://www.ibsradio.org) but the
DMCA link is currently disabled.

If there is material other webcasters
need from IBS we certainly will consider
providing it.  IBS definitely has much
greater legal resources available to it than
most groups, as many of our members
have significant law schools, like Harvard.

Certainly your ideas are welcome.

     Thanks,
     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 5/23/02 4:07:06 PM, address@hidden writes:

<< On Wednesday 22 May 2002 07:27, address@hidden wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> Unfortunately the foreign controlled RIAA/ Sound Exchange
> will have the right to "tax" US webcasters after the June 20, 2002,
> Library of Congress, Copyright Office decision on DMCA rates.

> DMCA will eventually give these foreign corporations
> the right to "tax" US Webcasters and even regulate
> them out of business using oppressive song reporting requirements.
- - -snip - - -

Hi: Say, Fritz, does your organization have any resources that the webcasters 
can tap into, in anticipation of the assault being waged upon them?  We have 
guidance from the Creative Commons Project, but not sure what your 
organization does in the face of all this.  For example, I have begun to 
irritate the you-know-what out of a couple journalists, by putting them on my 
cc list for pertinent messages.  Do you folks have a list of media that 
should be cognizant of happenings, as they occur?
Thanks,
Tom 
http://www.studioforrecording.org/
http://www.ibiblio.org/studioforrecording/
http://renotahoe.pm.org/ >>