RE: CARP Passed - This sucks!

["Paul Weissman" <paul@nioterra.com>]

> I (the sole owner of the rights on my compositions) want to put some of 
>MY
> music (for free) on MY internet site, then I'll have to pay to
> the SIAE (the
> Italian rights organization) so that they collect the money and
> then pay ME,

wow!  that's crazy!

what happens if you put your music up on a web site that's located in
another country?  are you still subject to SIAE payments?

how anyone hopes to geographically carve up the internet is beyond me...


paul




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luigi Meloni [mailto:Luigimeloni74@libero.it]
> Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 12:21 PM
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Re: CARP Passed - This sucks!
>
>
> Another question. I am an Italian artist. I'm not affiliated
> (obviously) to
> BMI/ASCAP,  but have my rights protected by I.M.R.O. (the Irish rights
> organization). My label has currently set up a radio station under 
>mp3.com
> or emusic.com  (that are American), that transmits only our music. What 
>is
> our position regarding this law? Do we have to pay RIAA for
> something? Does
> this all have a sense to anyone of you?
>
> We too in Italy have something similar to the CARP. The funny
> thing is that
> in Italy the situation is even more complex. To explain it in few
> words, if
> I (the sole owner of the rights on my compositions) want to put some of 
>MY
> music (for free) on MY internet site, then I'll have to pay to
> the SIAE (the
> Italian rights organization) so that they collect the money and
> then pay ME,
> the artist,  the sum minus the 40% of what I had to pay (the 40 %
> remains to
> the SIAE for the expenses of collecting my money and giving it back to
> me...). The funny thing is that I'm not affiliated to SIAE in any
> way, since
> I'm affiliate to the IMRO, but I'll have to pay the same. If my
> compositions
> were not copyrighted I would have to pay the same,  and the 100% of the
> money would go to SIAE (and we are talking of quite some money).
>
> Peace
> Luigi
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "matt davignon" <mattdavignon@hotmail.com>
> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 8:26 PM
> 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
> >
> > _________________________________________________________________
> > MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos:
> > http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx
> >
>
>
>
>