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>From Electronic Frontier Foundation: * Music Webcasting Still in Danger After Small Stations Get Temporary Reprieve Responding to Congressional pressure, the major label- backed licensing authority SoundExchange has offered small webcasters a temporary reprieve from the Copyright Royalty Board's outrageous royalty rate increase. This is a step in the right direction, but it still doesn't solve any of the underlying problems with the current licensing system. Music webcasting's future still hangs in the balance. SoundExchange's offer would essentially extend the much more reasonable statutory licensing terms that small webcasters have relied on for the last five years. But commercial services like Pandora and Live365 are still in deep trouble, as are small webcasters that may want to expand their businesses over time. And when SoundExchange's offer expires in 2010, small webcasters may once again be threatened with extinction. The Internet Radio Equality Act would help sustain music webcasting and fix the statutory licensing process on which most nonsubscription, noninteractive music webcasters rely. For more on this bill and SoundExchange's offer, check out SaveNetRadio.org: http://www.savenetradio.org For this post and related links: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/005265.php _________________________________________________________________ More photos, more messages, more storage—get 2GB with Windows Live Hotmail. http://imagine-windowslive.com/hotmail/?locale=en-us&ocid=TXT_TAGHM_migration_HM_mini_2G_0507