Until this week.
As you may be aware, the Recording Industry Association of America recently started to move on a plan that would basically crush small internet broadcasters (including public/community radio stations) by upping the royalties they pay on music between 300 and 1200 percent. Shame on them.
Wyden and Republican Darling-of-the-Social-Conservatives Presidential hopeful Sam Brownback (R-KS) introduced a bill that would basically neuter the RIAA's hemlock.
As someone who really got hooked on community radio when I lived in the Twin Cities (KFAI's 'different station every hour' is wonderful!), I don't want to see them go the way of the Edsel and will pretend, for the moment, that I don't usually prefer a hands-off government.
It's my blog and I'll be a hypocrite if I want to!
Happy Saturday....I'm out to buzz some bushes.
1 comment:
don't worry so much - the copyright board ruling itself is intrusive government, so legislation modifying a ruling of theirs is no more intrusive.
Of course, the mandatory license that allows your community radio to play what it wishes for a government mandated rate is also far from hands off government - so perhaps the whole hands-off, hands-on thing is not as black and white as you think
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