On March 2, 2007 the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB), which oversees sound recording royalties paid by Internet radio services, increased Internet radio's royalty burden between 300 and 1200 percent and thereby jeopardized the industry’s future.
Owners of internet radio stations agree that it is impossible to keep broadcasting with royalities that high. Sound streams in second life are considered as internet radio too. In the case that Congress go with this proposition, many internet radio's will die, and in second life many sims will stay silent.
Please, act now. There is no much time left because 15th of June is the D-day of internet radio. Sign the petition, call your representatives, do whatever you can. Don't let the music disappears from our world!
Reading this post, i made a bitter laugh… SL world is a relatively new one, there are so much possibility and chances still unexpressed… New talented (or less talented) musicians and DJ all over the world could build a reputation in SL and then break out in the RL as commercial phenomenons, it is a new and fun way to listen music (not to share it!)… As usual, the bigger is the industry that eat money from the music biz, the dullest its brain… How can people not understand the music across SL should be encouraged to make good money come from it? Why people that are usually outside the music biz have to explain this dumb businessmen how to make good money from it? Well this time i’d like a share on profits :p Anyway, let’s keep OUR music into SL, sign the petition please!
Thanks Eidur.
I really don’t get how people who went to school to do marketing and to make money can be illiterate enough. Historical fact is that first records that was prohibited for airplay was those of Bing Crosby. Publishers went to court and lose. After that, sales of Crosby’s records rocketed. Can they learn something from this? It is quite simple: radio is good for listeners, artists and labals!