[JPL] Internet Radio/Monday Program

[Jae Sinnett]

Hmmmm.....on air Lazaro John (Sound Exchange) and Tim (Pandora) where amicable. Too polite in my view. John saying there needs to be more fairness in payment.....Tim....they're asking too much. That was the simple part of it. My view is that this is coming from a couple areas......
   
  Musicians in the pop, rock, etc areas aren't producing quality product that makes the listening base for that music want to buy it.....at the level at least where the companies want or need it to be sold. Consequently sales figures are at an historic low for them.....40% or more and it's going to get worse. So we shouldn't feel to bad in jazz because it's across the board. They have to try and get more money someplace...even it's shooting themselves in the proverbial foot. Get John..... 
   
  Satelite radio.....Webcasters are a threat to them. They may be more so at the helm of this movement than the record companies. They are struggling as well so tanking the webcasters is smart from their perspective. Get John....
   
  Off air....John is reasonable. He wants this to be resolved in a way that won't jeopardize the webcasters ability to continue producing. He's being squeezed from a couple different areas and the negotiations are more involved than most know. I actually think after talking with him this will be resolved. I reminded him of the rate hike in 2002 that put a couple hundred webcasters down but strangely he denied that happened. At that time he was supposed to come up with a compromise or better "plan" but it never materialized. There will be a rate hike but my guess is that it will not be as high and some will fall unfortunately.  
   
  The per song per listener.....at least from my perspective in jazz....won't be as bad if it goes through only because jazz compositions tend to be longer. That's actually one....albeit undesirable way of reducing your fees....playing longer songs.....IF this goes through. There is by the way.....a way around the maximum of four songs per three hour period by the same artists as you brought up. I don't fully understand what needs to be done to do this but there is a way around it and Tim talked about it briefly. 
   
  All in all the discussion was to the point but no clear consensus on how it will be resolved but they are working on it. I doubt very seriously though that organizations that John represents in this splat are as objective as he appears to be.
   
  Jae Sinnett   

Lazaro Vega <wblv.wblu.fm at gmail.com> wrote:
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How did it go, Jae?

On 6/28/07, Lazaro Vega 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
>
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