[JPL] The Last Stand of Internet Radio?

[Welcome to Dreamsville Records]

SPECIAL PROGRAMMING
INTERNET RADIO DAY OF SILENCE "D-DAY FOR WEBCASTERS"
  
Original broadcast: June 26, 2007 (download this link):
  http://media.kcrw.com/podcast/mp3_raw/ot/ot070626D-Day_for_Webcasters.mp3
   
  KCRW General Manager Ruth Seymour joins Pandora, Live365, Yahoo!, AccuRadio, indie webcaster BAGeL Radio and public radio station WAMU/Washington, DC to describe the effects that the new rates will have on their ability to stream and to serve audiences online.
   
  This is the best overview.
   
  For more:
  http://www.kcrw.com/music/music-royalty-rates
   
  Happy 4th!  
   
  Ash
  Welcome To Dreamsville Records
  

"Yet Grammy winner Cathy Fink, who counts herself in an even more
radio-unfriendly genre ‹ children's music ‹ offered a feisty counterpoint to
Allcorn, insisting and re-insisting that she deserved to be fairly paid for
her work. She pays for her own instruments, her own recording sessions, and
her own health insurance, so why shouldn't she be fully compensated? She
expressed little sympathy for webcasters and their plight. "There's all this
talk that not all Internet radio companies are going to survive, but that's
true with all businesses," Fink said. "Not every bicycle company survives.
Not every inventor comes up with something that survives the marketplace."
     
  WHAT!??? Is she saying????  The new rates go beyond fair compensation.  Terrible way to end such an important article.  

       
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