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Hello Mr. Flint, I'm Herb Linkletter from the IIPA (Internet Information Publishing Association) We've started this association to protect writers that want to publish on the Information Superhighway. We represent companies like Time/Warner and Randomhouse. We're going to impose a nominal fee for all writings downloaded from all sites on the internet, as to protect the writers signed to publishing companies. This will include any information in text format, such as the list archives that are now hosted on the Looper's Delight website. Now, while no publishers have contracts with any of the people posting on the LD site, they could quite possibly sometime in the future, and therefore we have to protect the artists that so eloquently post on the LD list. We'll figure out a way to get them the money, never you mind. If this fee of .07 US per email (yes, even for "me too's") is too much of a burden for you, I suggest you do a better marketing job and perhaps get some real advertising to help you make up the revenue. We notice the LD site uses a lot of bandwidth, so obviously some people feel the information is useful and by useful, we mean worth money. Thank you, Herb Linkletter On Friday, June 21, 2002, at 07:25 PM, Kim Flint wrote: > I don't really know many details about the CARP thing, in regards to > what royalty rates would be fair or not. I do listen to Live365 a lot > though. In my opinion, Herb Tarlek is a sales and marketing genius > compared to these guys. For all the listener hours they claim to get, > the ads they manage to sell are simply pathetic. All the other sites > I've seen seem about the same or worse. No wonder they freak out about > having to pay a royalty. > > It seems to me that broadcasters should pay some royalty to whoever > owns rights to a piece of music, whether they are on the web or radio > waves or whatever. I have no ideas about what that rate should be, I > gather that is what a lot of the controversy is about. However, it > seems pretty clear to me that if the number is bigger than zero most or > all of these webcasting companies will go out of business very quickly. > Most likely they will get replaced by new webcasting companies that > actually know how to run a broadcasting *business*, as opposed to just > knowing how to set up the servers for one and code some html. > > kim > > At 03:36 PM 6/21/2002, Clifford Novey wrote: >> No it's .07 per play- but if SomaFM would pay 500 a day that is over >> 7000 >> songs per day- it adds up- and if it would have been .014 per play it >> would >> have been $99 a day for them not $500- quite a difference. >> >> Cliff >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Greg House" <ghunicycle@yahoo.com> >> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> >> Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 3:26 PM >> Subject: Re: OT: CARP passed- this sucks. >> >> >> > >> > --- Clifford Novey <om@om-studios.com> wrote: >> > > What a major bummer. >> > > >> > > http://www.somafm.com/ >> > >> > They got a lower rate then what they'd asked for, but it's still >> > outrageous. Something like $0.70/play, given 1000 listeners. I >> believe >> > broadcast radio is still down in the 1 digit cents. Seems >> ridiculously >> > unfair. And not only that, but it's still retroactive to 1998. >> > >> > As you say, major bummer. >> > >> > Greg >> > >> > __________________________________________________ >> > Do You Yahoo!? >> > Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup >> > http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com >> > >> > >> > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Kim Flint | Looper's Delight > kflint@loopers-delight.com | http://www.loopers-delight.com >