Can someone tell me how a news-radio internet feed is somehow
connected to this music royalty issue?
Does Drudge know that he's caught up in this? He usually jumps all
over issues related to the internet and the media.
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http://www.betanews.com/article/US_Internet_Radio_Providers_Forced_to_Restrict_Streams_to_US_Listeners/1178212096
US Internet Radio Providers Forced to Restrict Streams to US Listeners
By Scott M. Fulton, III, BetaNews
May 3, 2007, 1:11 PM
Forced to comply with US federal statutes on providing music to
foreign listeners without a license, Pandora and other American
streaming Internet radio services began actively enforcing
restrictions on streaming to IP addresses outside US boundaries this
morning.
As a result, Pandora listeners in Canada and elsewhere began receiving
apology notices instead of music, including a description of efforts
Pandora and others are making to secure international performance
rights - a topic to which countries elsewhere have apparently not
assigned a very high priority.
"Delivery of Pandora is based on proper licensing from the people who
created the music," wrote Pandora founder Tim Westergren in a message
to international listeners. "We have always believed in honoring the
guidelines as determined by legislators and regulators, artists and
songwriters, and the labels and publishers they work
with...Unfortunately, there is no equivalent license outside the US
and there is no global licensing organization to enable us to
legitimately offer Pandora around the world."
Pandora is not alone, as Canada-based BetaNews reader Hall9000
informed us yesterday in a comment for our story on the performance
back-royalty due date postponement. Talk-radio station KFI in Los
Angeles, he told us, began posting a notice directed to Canadian
listeners yesterday, including a request for a listening license.
"Due to licensing restrictions," the notice reads, "we are not able to
allow access to the content you are requesting from outside the United
States. We are sorry we can no longer provide access to Canada. If you
currently reside in the United States, please select one of the
options below to process your request. Please allow up to 60 hours to
process your request." Whether KFI - owned by Clear Channel
Communications - would respond to that request with an invoice for a
fee is unclear.
"I've been listening to a program for years now and now I can't?"
wrote Hall9000. "Talk about killing a market and shooting themselves
in the foot while it's in their mouth."
As far back as October 2005, the Future of Music Coalition called upon
the Senate Commerce Committee to begin consideration of legislation
that would amend US copyright law to allow for international licensing
- in effect, US stations paying US-based performance rights
organizations directly, rather than through international agencies
that would then repay those same US-based PROs.
"The lack of a performance right in the US confounds international
licensing and royalty distribution mechanisms," the FMC's directors
wrote. "As the music industry continues to expand on a global scale,
and as the purchase and enjoyment of music is controlled less and less
by geographical borders, having copyright laws that align with
worldwide standards is more important than ever. Modifying the US
Copyright law to include a performance right for sound recordings will
bring us into harmony with the rest of the industrialized world."
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Subject:
Internet broadcast talk-radio is blocked in Canada (Clear Channel
blocks Drudge Report)
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:18:30 -0400
From: Some Guy <Some@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Newsgroups: can.internet.highspeed, alt.radio.internet,
alt.radio.talk
Drudge is currently on the air (and will be for the next 45 minutes).
The following web-links are at the top of his web page
(www.drudgereport.com). They are only there during the 3 hours he's
on the air, on Sunday nights (from 10 to 1 AM EST).
http://www.newsradio610.com/cc-common/streaming_new/index.html
http://www.970wfla.com/cc-common/streaming_new/index.html
http://kprcradio.com/cc-common/streaming_new/index.html
http://www.wjno.com/pages/streaming.html
http://www.wabcradio.com/article.asp?id=122648
When I tried to listen via the 970 AM station in Florida, I get this:
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http://www.970wfla.com/cc-common/streaming_new/index.html
Your IP Address: 70.48.x.x
Due to licensing restrictions, we are not able to allow access to the
content you are requesting from outside the United States. We are
sorry we can no longer provide access to Canada. If you currently
reside in the United States, please select one of the options below to
process your request. Please allow up to 60 hours to process your
request.
Choose from the following:
I am US Military
I live outside the United States
I am inside the United States
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From here: http://proxy.org/cgi_proxies.shtml
I tried this:
http://proxy.org/proxy.pl?url=http%3A%2F%2F&proxy=pagewash.com
But that didn't seem to work when I plugged this URL into it:
http://www.wjno.com/pages/streaming.html
Here's an example of an error I get when I click the "CLICK HERE TO
LISTEN LIVE" link on this page:
http://www.weboogle.info/pr0xd/index.php?q=aHR0cDovL3d3dy53YWJjcmFkaW8uY29tL2FydGljbGUuYXNwP2lkPTEyMjY0OA%3D%3D&hl=0
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PAGE NOT FOUND!
(404 Error)
You have requested a page (
http://www.wabcradio.com:5145/javascript:openwin();function
openwin(){PlayerWin=window.open("
http:/go.eonstreams.com?u=7906910%22%2C%22PlayerWin%22%2C%22width=681%2Cheight=501%2Cresizable=0%2Ctop=0%2Cleft=0%22%29;%7D
) that either no longer exists, or never existed in the first place.
Please check the spelling of the URL (web site address) and try again
if it was misspelled.
If it is correct, please click HERE to be taken to the home page for
this site where you can find the specific page you are looking for
using our navigation structure.
If you still can't find the page you are looking for, please drop us a
note using our feedback page.
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So if anyone can suggest a way to listen to these various AM radio
stations through a proxy, please tell.
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