Christmas Music 24/7

I’ve moved ChristmasMusic247.com over to a new web server. If you’re seeing this message, then you’re on the new server. This server is faster, and has more disk space and bandwidth. This was part of the plans I had for getting ready for Christmas 2007 (only 270 days away!) before the copyright performance royalties mess [...]

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To help reduce my liability for performance royalties, I am only playing songs that are longer than 6 minutes long. This will mean that less than 10 songs per hour will be played. At .0011 cents per song, if you listen for an hour, I will owe 1.1 cents. And since VIP listeners earn me [...]

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Live365 has released this statement about the new performance royalty rates that the Copyright Royalty Board announced on March 2:
It has always been Live365’s mission to support artists and pay our fair share of royalties. Since its inception in 1999, Live365 has always paid both composer royalties (to ASCAP, BMI and SESAC) and performance royalties [...]

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How the RIAA Stole Web Radio (Audio Version MP3 2:25 700kb) read by Michael and Laura Clark.
Everyone on the web
Liked web radio a lot.
But the RIAA who lived
In Fantasy land did not.
The artists don’t quite understand,
The impact of web radio throughout the land.
The RIAA hated web radio,
Every single station.
Now please don’t ask why,
Maybe they need [...]

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The press is starting to wake up to the performance royalty question. David Berlind writes in Digital culturus interruptus: Right here, right now, the almighty copyright finally comes home to roost about three legal situations this quarter that will impact the Web for years to come.

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Well, the good news is that VIP listeners hours are apparently not included in the amount that I owe to SoundExchange for the privilege of sharing Christmas music with the world. The bad news is I apparently will owe a total of (approximately) $5,367.04 to broadcast from January 1, 2006 through March 11, 2007. I [...]

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I have been forced to remove all free listeners from both of my Christmas stations. The way it works is I would be billed .0011 cents for each song that is heard for each listener. Last Friday I had approximately 2,352 “performances.” Which means I would owe around 3 bucks for the day. And that [...]

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On March 2, the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) issued the significantly higher new royalty rates for Internet radio for the 2006-2010 period. They changed the guidelines for how royalties are calculated for the music that is played on Internet Radio stations. The old guidelines were based on a percentage of the money earned by an [...]

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