[JPL] Digital Millennium Act

[Lazaro Vega]

You can do it, but you'll get charged so much $ per 100 on-line listeners.

Here's hoping NPR's lawyers can get those rules amended for Public
Radio as there's really no way to educate the public about the careers
of Louis Armstrong or Duke Ellington, etc., within those guidelines.

Now, there's also the option to have record companies sign a waiver
from the station saying they opt out of the regulations in the DMCA as
regards their releases -- some are blanket waivers, some are
quarterly, some are in advance by the show. But the majors, who hold
the majority catalogues of 78 rpm jazz from the swing era and before,
are reluctant to get their legal departments involved in waivers for
individual radio stations. Stone wall there.

Blue Lake's web stream, which simulcasts our FM signal, attracts
around 20 listeners a night to the jazz programm; while our FM
broadcast may draw in 1,500 to 2,000: should the FM audience be
beholden to such a smaller segment of the listenership? No.