Author Archives: Mike Clark
PC Magazine: Net Radio: ‘New Song Royalties Will Kill Us’
PC Magazine’s article: Net Radio: ‘New Song Royalties Will Kill Us’. The word is getting out there very slowly.
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Playlist Magazine: The downing of Internet radio
Playlist Magazine has a very nice article summarizing the status of the performance royalty situation. The article is The downing of Internet radio.
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New Web Server
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 … Continue reading
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Longer Songs in Rotation Now
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 … Continue reading
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Live365 Pays Royalties to Artists, Labels and Songwriters
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 … Continue reading
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How the RIAA Stole Web Radio
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 … Continue reading
ZDNet Article on the Performance Royalties Issue
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 … Continue reading
Good News and Bad News
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 … Continue reading
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No Free Listeners
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 … Continue reading
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New Royalty Ruling Leaves the Future of Internet Radio in Doubt
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 … Continue reading
