[JPL] Internet Radio/Monday Program

[Lazaro Vega]

How did it go, Jae?

On 6/28/07, Lazaro Vega <wblv.wblu.fm at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, how can we program, with any honesty, the music of Duke
> Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Glenn Miller or any major
> musical artist from before the LP era when we're limited as
> programmers streaming on the web to only 4 selections by the same
> artist in a three hour period (from "The Digital Millennium Copyright
> Act")? This music has stood the test of technological advance since
> the 1920's and it is still with us. The Dorsey Brothers had more than
> 200 hit records between them: not just good records, commercially
> viable, well known and well loved recordings. Just playing the Frank
> Sinatra era with Dorsey yields more than 4 worthwhile songs: how does
> one portray the immense contribution these musicians made to our
> culture with such a limited number of allowable spins (without being
> penalized financially or threatened with removal of the statutory
> license to stream)? Now, with the Internet, the 78 rpm era, which
> documents some of the most popular and highest quality music America
> ever produced, is completely and detrimentally marginalized if this
> law were strictly enforced. Radio has always done well by music but
> now we're being pinched from the news/bean counter divisions from
> within our networks and stations and from big government regulations
> from without: what do they have against music? Having the long hand of
> goverment reach into a jazz program with these unwelcome limitations
> doesn't, really, help the artists as much as playing their music does.
>
> You could see how they defend that.
>
> Lazaro
>