Journal Original Replica's Journal: The death of Fair Use and Internet Radio 1
From Reason Magazine, we get the history of the pay-per-listener fees that are now going to kill all Internet Radio. "October 1992, when President George Bush signed the Audio Home Recording Act, which taxed digital audio equipment and media in order to "pay back" copyright holders for their added risk in this brave new digital era. Next, the World Intellectual Property Organization debates of the mid-90s advanced the idea that the United State had to "normalize" its copyright rules to the rest of world. A world that, interestingly enough, lacked either fair use or a First Amendment."
But apparently that is just the tip of the liscensing iceberg."Make no mistake, the death of Net radio is merely a means to an end--the end being the rollback of any notion of fair use of copyrighted digital content. The goal is nothing less than a licensing regime for all digital music that recognizes no ownership rights, fair or otherwise." http://www.reason.com/news/show/121281.html
But apparently that is just the tip of the liscensing iceberg."Make no mistake, the death of Net radio is merely a means to an end--the end being the rollback of any notion of fair use of copyrighted digital content. The goal is nothing less than a licensing regime for all digital music that recognizes no ownership rights, fair or otherwise." http://www.reason.com/news/show/121281.html
Hang on (Score:2)
You're ten years from depending on them for liberty.