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An anonymous reader writes "With U.S. copyright royalties threatening to kill Internet radio in the U.S., Michael Geist explains why webcasters considering a move to Canada will find that the legal framework for Internet radio trades costs for complexity. There are two main areas of concern from a Canadian perspective — broadcast regulation and copyright fees. The broadcast side is surprisingly regulation-free, but there are at least three Canadian copyright collectives lining up to collect from Internet radio stations."
Canadian Content Law (Score:1, Funny)
CanCon's Genre vs. Genre Favouritism (Score:5, Funny)
Ahem.
Avante-garde Brazilian elevator music, to take another example, has a special exemption that requires only 2% of the material aired be produced or mixed in Canada. John Cage performances are required to have only an 8% Canadian quality to the street noise that fills in the silences.
Also, for some reason, Hip Hop from Quebec counts.
Yeah, Eh? (Score:2)
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Not me! (Score:5, Funny)
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Canada? Why not anywhere else in the world? (Score:3, Interesting)
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At the risk of repeating what may have been said already:
http://www.saveourinternetradio.com/ [saveourinternetradio.com] - Bless you, Radio Paradise for leading the charge!
I'd bless NPR for fighting this as well, but the fact is that NPR's opposition to third-channel adjacency rules in the Low-Power FM legal tussles of 199
Re:Canada? Why not anywhere else in the world? (Score:4, Interesting)
The thing is, there ain't no Benjamens in doing this; I, like most other webcasters, shell out our own money for our own servers or bandwidth or services like live365.com, and we do it for fun and for love of the music. So far as I know, "terrestrial" stations aren't required to pay royalties in the same way, so why are we?
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How about a DMCA abuse station? (Score:1, Interesting)
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We could call it "YouPod". And Google could buy it for a billion dollars. And dollar-for-dollar, lawyer-for-lawyer, the YouTube DMCA lawsuit is a fair fight.
The problem is that after Google wins the YouTube/DMCA battle, the MAFIAA will simply buy a new law, DMCA2, on the grounds that the DMCA is obsole
Already did that (Score:5, Interesting)
Stop the madness! (Score:5, Interesting)
Let's stop this madness.
Write your Congressional representative. [ipetitions.com]
Save the Streams. [savethestreams.org]
On the contrary. (Score:4, Interesting)
However, a move is something altogether different. Y'see, taxes ARE cold, hard cash. And all those listeners who aren't listening to the commercial stations' advertising? They ARE collective power. No listeners, no advertising revenue, no commercial stations.
(In England, pirate radio eventually forced the Government to license independent stations for the same reason. People defected in far too large numbers to the likes of Stockports' KFM and the monopoly crumbled from a lack of listeners. Protests never made a difference for the same reason they won't with Internet Radio. The people who need to protest most have made their voice willfully the weakest. It won't get heard. The chink of money, however quiet, will be. A politician can hear a cent coin falling on cotton candy from a thousand paces. Moving is the only voice left. If you don't use that, you've nothing left at all.)
The world is bigger than North America... (Score:3, Insightful)
I give up (Score:2, Insightful)
Truth is, everyone can sign all the petitions they want, send all the letters to Congress that they want, but at the end of the day it's still David & Goliath. And I don't like those odds, regardless of how that first David did. I just ran a radio station as a hobby, and it got damned popular for a small-scale, self-financed project. But it's over-regulated and too expensive now.
Fight "the man" you say? Wh
CRTC (Score:5, Funny)
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Would something like Verizon IPTV count? (because it uses TCP/IP and travels over "the internet" from Verizon's servers to your set top box)
And now... (Score:1)
Unregulated By Choice! (Score:5, Informative)
Actually it's quite unregulated because the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) chose to not regulate Internet broadcasting... back in 1999. [crtc.gc.ca]
Then again, we're also allowed to say "fuck" on the radio, unlike our American cousins....
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Move North to Canada? (Score:2, Funny)
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Barbados (Score:2)
Barbados or Antigua? (Score:2)
Are you sure it was Barbados? I thought it was Antigua. It wouldn't surprise me if there was more than one country going after the online gambling thing, though...
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Socan (Score:2, Insightful)
We'd all like to live in a society where culture is free and ubiquitous. Squeezing greedy record companies out of the equation with modern technology is a no-brainer. But let's not forget that organiza
So let me get this straight ... (Score:2, Insightful)
North? (Score:3, Insightful)
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I'm on a Mexican (Internet) Radio"...
Pandora (Score:2)
(Pandora has heavy non-US disclaimers, but appears to work just fine north of the border.)
who else dreads the innevitable (Score:2)
It would be like an arms race where the participants only hurt themselves... or like the evolution of international copyright law, if you will. OK, yeah, I know what you're thinking. It would be exactly like the evolution of international
Cool, more Canadian content worldwide! (Score:1)
Copyright killed the internet star (Score:1)
I don't care who or what you are
This damn time you've gone too far
We're gonna create a copyright czar
This is the way we raise the bar
cuz Copyright killed the internet star
Chorus
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Ehm... (Score:1)
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Location? (Score:1)
Oh the irony (Score:3, Insightful)
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Re:Oh the irony (Score:4, Informative)
Best Solution (Score:1)
We have open source for a reason.Much music is out there from bands dying to be heard and will release under an openmusic or other GNU-like license.
Since the Industry(read RIAA,Major labels,Career leeches)has caused this legislation in order to ruin our internet and benefit themselves,let them play with themselves,for themselves till no one is listening but themselves.
Lose the middleman(Industry) and em
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You've grasped the concept but not the business model.
Music is distributed free.You may want a license that stipulates pay for commercial entities use but allowing royalty free radioplay.The bands make their money off their performance,likeness,retail(t-shirts,posters etc.)and eliminate the hand of the middleman.Promotion?Do it yourself or hire it done.The point is,in light of recent events and say the last 75 years of bad behaviour by an ind