Menu
▾
▴
Re: [Savonet-users] Considering shutting down my radio and possibly making my radio management system public
|
From: Brandon C. <bra...@gm...> - 2009-09-30 03:47:37
|
I've been to the US Congress two times to speak with legislators and ploticians about imternet broadcasting royalties, provided written testimony for hearings , and gathered thousands of signatures from small broadcasters on letters to Congress. The first time we had amazing cosponsorship for a new bill that SoundExcanged made an offer inexchamge to stop lobbying. That particular bill didnt make it, but there several other in varying stages of legislature. Change is comimg, but it's slow and you have to put in a lot of work in your own country too. The major labels are international so we fight the same. I know it's upsetting to see Those numbers, especially when Compared to song writing royalties that run around 2%. Just rember this, Dont give up a real opportunity because of a bad contract. There are far more unlicensed Webcasters (shoutcast.com) than licensed. So you could choose to be in the Majority, or take one of the deals and do the best you can to honor it. To date a webcaster has not been sued, file traders have though. Romain is right about existing business, the Small Webcaster License was a unilateral decision during an open negotiation. The PurePlay deal ($25k minimum) was a negotiation between three existing large webasters. Sent from my iPhone On Sep 29, 2009, at 11:05 PM, Romain Beauxis <to...@ra...> wrote: > Hi Gabriel ! > > Le mardi 29 septembre 2009 21:35:14, Gabriel Afana a écrit : >> So I've been doing a LOT of research in the legality of running an >> internet >> radio and because of all the corrupt politians (at least in the USA), >> running a legal internet radio station is not really possible for >> most >> people due to the OUTRAGEOUS fees of SoundExchange. >> >> I've looked into running the radio in another country such as >> Canada which >> have less strict laws, but the radio is for an online community I run >> which is a legitimate business that I make my living off of. I >> dont want >> to merge shady business activies (such as moving the radio system to >> canada to avoid fees) with my legitimate business and have possible >> problems down the radio. Im REALLY upset about this because I >> spent the >> last several months developing this radio (spending 10-12 hours/day >> working on it). This is what I was doing full-time. > > I am really sorry to hear this. I understand why you want to do your > business > seriously and why you do not want to use alternative sneaky ways. > > I personaly believe the actual fees for net broadcasting are decided > while > consulting only the existing players, which already have a lot more > income, > and also for the most of them rely massively on traditional > broadcasting, and > for that reason do not have any interest into letting new concurrent > appear on > internet... > > I really hope that people like you with innovative ideas and willing > to work > full time on setting up new broadcasting systems for internet find > their own > economic equilibrium. > >> However, if I end up shutting down my radio, I do not want all that >> work of >> mine to go to waste so I would like to share it with you guys. If >> this >> ends up happening, I'll be sure to give everyone a tour and explain >> how it >> works. > > In the very unfortunate case where this would happen, we would be > pleased to > host the source code, provided it is released under any open-source > compatible > license, which I am sure is what you have in mind. > > Another issue from our perpective would be the maintenance of the > code, but > that is another topic. > > > > Romain > > --- > --- > --- > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA > is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart > your > developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and > stay > ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register > now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf > _______________________________________________ > Savonet-users mailing list > Sav...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/savonet-users |