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Help Save Web Radio! |
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by Otis
Email: radiolavalamp (nospam) hotmail.com (unverified!) |
13 Mar 2002
Modified: 11:01:45 AM |
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Copyright law proposal will eliminate small, independent & non-commercial webcasters from the internet. |
Proposed CARP law will charge all webcasters 2 X more than terrestial broadcasters for playing copyrighted music. They are making the proposal in conjunction with, or by pressure of the RIAA and other music industry "big-wigs." This will effectively eliminate all "small" US-based webcasters and the services such as Live 365 that support them. This is a FREE SPEECH issue -- another link in the chain of corporate consolidation of the media.
We read a lot of about "freedom" on these pages. Well, now is the time to actually fight to save one of your dwindling freedoms. Please follow the link below, read the petition and sign it if you agree.
Please hurry. Another media door is being quickly shut.
http://www.petitiononline.com/carp/petition-sign.html |
See also:
http://www.rinku.zaq.ne.jp/bkaec205/
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is this really a free speech issue? |
by JF
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13 Mar 2002
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Don't get me wrong; I don't like copyright law or this mercenary fee structure at all, and I agree that they're restrictive and wrong.
But is it "free speech" to play copyrighted music on a webcast? Surely webcasting makes it possible for musicians to create and webcasters to webcast music without relying on music publishers and copyright laws. As long as we can create our own content (music, etc.) and distribute it freely over the web, we still have free speech, no? We ought to create our own content anyway. |
