Re: [ARSCLIST] ASCAP follows RIAA down the road guaranteed not to make friends

[Bob Olhsson <olh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>From Dismuke: "...By contrast, under the pending SoundExchange rate
increase for sound recording royalties, a station with
an audience of similar size as mine that plays on
average 19 recordings per hour as mine does, during
2010, the last year of the new rates, the
SoundExchange royalties would be about $1083 per MONTH
for a station that already has a negative cash flow...."

That $1083 a month is supposedly only 6% higher than the current statutory
rate. You obviously don't pay the current statutory rate and you won't have
to pay the new one unless you are stupid enough to not make a better deal
directly with SoundExchange or the artists. SoundExchange is a membership
organization exactly like ASCAP. Its board is half artists and half
copyright owners who in many cases are also artists. According to their
website 75% of their payments to date have been directly to artists and
independent labels.

A friend of mine works at WFMU. They found it was no big hassle to simply
negotiate directly with the artists they play. The internet makes this kind
of communication utterly trivial. The intent of the law is to favor people
who are willing to make a direct deal.

Bob Olhsson Audio Mastery, Nashville TN
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