Tag: INTERNETRADIO

Internet radio service Pandora is no longer available to most customers outside of the United States and Britain. The network has been unable to reach licensing agreements with most copyright holders in most other countries. The US Digital Millennium Copyright Act requires copyright holders to license their content to internet broadcasters, but most countries have no such law. Founder Tim ...

Congressman Jay Inslee and eight cosponsors have introduced the Internet Radio Equality Act, designed to combat the recent rate hike implemented by the Copyright Royalty Board. If no action is taken, royalty rates on internet music broadcasts will jump significantly on May 15th, potentially putting many small netcasters out of business. Among other things, the new bill would: Nullify the ...

Pandora is a music discovery service we've covered before. It goes beyond "regular" internet radios, who largely base their taxonomy and discovery services on rather flat databases and sterile genre/artist/album nomenclature. At best, you might get web-based social suggestions, like what built MySpace and makes Virb sing. Pandora utilizes the research and ongoing classifications of the ...

The Copyright Royalty Board wants to more than double the amount of money internet radio stations pay to license the music they stream online over the next four years. For many webcasters, the new fees could be enough to put them out of business. Bill and Rebecca Goldsmith, who run Radio Paradise, have started a new blog, with a detailed explanation of the impact the new rates would have on small ...