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RE: CARP Passed - This sucks!


but how can you guarantee that music being played on your internet radio
station ISN'T affiliated with BMI/ASCAP?

in order to to run a station like this you'd have to accept mp3s/cds from
artists who want you to play their music.  what if some people (maybe even
the record companies themselves) decide to pass you material that is
actually covered by BMI/ASCAP?  all they have to do is monitor your 
station,
wait for a song of theirs to come up and all of a sudden you're in
litigation.

i have no idea if this is actually how the law works, but it's a thought.

paul



> -----Original Message-----
> From: matt davignon [mailto:mattdavignon@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 11:27 AM
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: re: CARP Passed - This sucks!
>
>
> Now here's a question:
>
> Can a streaming radio station exist by playing only songs of consenting
> artists and labels who are not affiliated with BMI/ASCAP?
>
> There are enough good non-major-label artists who actually want
> their music
> to be heard to fill a huge number of stations in any genre, and
> I'd like to
> think there's a large enough audience that would be interested in hearing
> stuff that they don't already hear on the radio.
>
> I think the reason that the major labels made the effort to
> squash internet
> radio is that they feared they would no longer have control of all the
> channels necessary to convince John Q. Average-American that the bands
> marketed by them are the only ones worth hearing. That's why they didn't
> make effort to charge the same rate to broadcast radio stations. 95% of
> broadcast radio stations exclusively play major-label material.
>
> Anyway, it would be nice if we could turn this into a case of the majors
> shooting themselves in the foot. Wouldn't it be great if we said,
> "Ok, well
> since you're being such an asshole about it, we'll only play music by
> artists/labels who are in it for the art and community from now on."
>
> Matt
>
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