I am a lawyer straight out of Los Angeles. Ok, just kidding, but honestly, I was just wondering, as an internet radio station, are you bound by the same laws that non-internet radio stations are bound by? Example, paying bands royalities, not playing certain songs, etc. I considered making my own station of just non-stop Zwan, 24-7, but thought I would find out more first. You seem to have a good station, so tell me, brother. Do you pay the big $$$ to play the songs you play?
Sincerely,
Los Angeles Lawyer
P4P
Depends on the station.
Hello,
I have seen some stations pay $1200 to play their songs on the internet. But most station don't pay anything. I view it like this as long as you're doing it legal or at least have the rights to the music through purchasing the cds you have nothing to worry about. But if you didn't pay for the music in some form or fashion, and are broadcasting music without having any rights to the music, then you might be doing something illegal.
Thanks,
P4P
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Re: Depends on the station.
P4P wrote:
Hello,
I have seen some stations pay $1200 to play their songs on the internet. But most station don't pay anything. I view it like this as long as you're doing it legal or at least have the rights to the music through purchasing the cds you have nothing to worry about. But if you didn't pay for the music in some form or fashion, and are broadcasting music without having any rights to the music, then you might be doing something illegal.
Thanks,
P4P
Update:
Digital Rights Management sucks. Does anyone on this forum buy songs through itunes or yahoo or napster? I remember the first time I bought through yahoo I felt ripped off by the fact that I had to go through all these different channels just to make the songs into mp3's. Besides sampling songs these services suck! I would like to hear other peoples problems with these services and how you guys get music.
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College Networks!
Its not hard to find someone with 100 or more gigs of mp3/movies where I am.
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Anonymous wrote:
College Networks!
Its not hard to find someone with 100 or more gigs of mp3/movies where I am.
I agree with you that getting music illegally, is almost to easy. In an ideal world I would have people just send in music and then I would play it on my station. But because of the RIAA, I am encouraged to aquire my music legally. I also like owning the cds for backup purposes. One of the only legal ways I can think of for getting new music, for free and also fast, is to station rip your favorite station or stations. If you want to make sure that you are ripping legally you must use the music for sampling purposes only and not for sharing with your buddies and or for rebroadcasting. This is because you do not have the rights to the music and are broadcasting or sharing the music illegally(that is of course if you want to be legal ). This is a good way to be able to take your music on the go and get new music for free.
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). This is a good way to be able to take your music on the go and get new music for free.