Turtle
03-08-2007, 10:03 AM
As some of you know Don Stugots has an internet radio program. Don is a My Space friend of mine and he put up the following bulletin a few days ago. I told him I would post it on Wackbag to try and help him out. Please don't be assholes.
Thanks,
Turtle
HelpStugots (http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/647826498)
MySpace bulletin by Stugots
Sorry this is so long, but please read it because this is very important. Without your help, ThereIsNoRadio may very soon be no longer able to provide you with shows like Lenay D's Musical Saturday Mornings, The Don Stugots Experience, The Music that Mikey Likes, DJNewStyle, Suburban Shakedown, Kieska UK's Weekly Showcase, Hear It Loud Radio, RobOnt Radio, Hate the Radio, Fandick, and The Badmonkey Show/The Asylum. In fact, without your help, no other internet radio station will likely be around to provide them either.
To be clear from the beginning, I beleive that the artists that we play at ThereIsNoRadio deserve payment for their work. The vast majority of the artists played at TiNR are hand chosen and mixed in with more popular music as an effort to promote them and encourage sales of their music. Many of them are artists like Fishbone that you will not hear on traditional corporate radio and it is stations like ours that get the word out about these artists. The artists in our heaviest rotation fall into this category.
The Copyright Royalty Board announced on Friday the increase in royalties for internet radio. The board rejected all arguments made by webcasters and adopted the proposal from SoundExchange (the royalty collection agency created by the RIAA). The rates we have been paying for the last year are the 2005 rates. The new rates for 2006 will be charged to us retroactively and they will increase every year for the foreseeable future. By 2009, we will be paying over twice the royalty cost per listener that we paid in 2005, which is way beyond our means at this point without a serious change in the way we do things. I do not have any desire to fill the station up with constant commercial ads to make up the difference in royalties. We do not have the corporate backing to cover this cost.
The new royalty rates will look like this:
2006 - $.0008 per performance
2007 - $.0011 per performance
2008 - $.0014 per performance
2009 - $.0018 per performance
2010 - $.0019 per performance
1 performance = 1 play of one song multiplied by the number of listeners tuned in for any part of it.
At 100 connections almost constantly tuned in for the year, we will owe about $864 in royalty payments per month or $10,368 for the year. If we get to 1000 listeners for the majority of the day, we will owe around $103,3680 for the year. These numbers are just the 2006 rates at $0.0008 per performance. As you can see, by 2008 at $0.0014 per performance, we will owe about $3,024/month and $36,288 per year with just 100 listeners. We do not know yet what we will owe the RIAA in retroactive charges for 2006.
These rates do not include the other royalty payments we make to SESAC and ASCAP. These rates also do not include the cost of bandwidth and server capacity. This may very well destroy not just ThereIsNoRadio, but also all non-corporate backed LEGAL internet radio. This will not affect the hundreds of thousands of internet radio stations operating illegally without paying royalties.
Everyone involved in ThereIsNoRadio is here only for their love of radio and none of us make a dime from it. As you can see from the above, we spend money to make these shows possible without any expectation of compensation.
What can you do?
Write to, or
Call your Representatives: http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Call your Senators: http://www.senate.gov/general/contac...nators_cfm.cfm
Call the Copyright Royalty Board: http://www.loc.gov/crb/contact/
Let them know that if they support this, they are willfully supporting the destruction of free and independent media, the interests of big business, and the silencing of our voices. Make sure they understand that they will not be receiving your vote if they refuse to intervene on behalf of small webcasters nationwide and force the Copyright Royalty Board and the RIAA to come up with reasonable royalty rates that do not threaten the existance of non-corporate owned internet radio. These rates only hurt those of us operating within the law. They do not do anything to stop piracy and they will not stop the pirate internet radio stations that continue to operate without paying royalties now.
Thank you all for supporting ThereIsNoRadio for as long as you have. I sincerely hope you will be able to continue that support.
For more information please also visit:
SaveNetRadio.org
thepetitionsite.com
Thanks,
Turtle
HelpStugots (http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/647826498)
MySpace bulletin by Stugots
Sorry this is so long, but please read it because this is very important. Without your help, ThereIsNoRadio may very soon be no longer able to provide you with shows like Lenay D's Musical Saturday Mornings, The Don Stugots Experience, The Music that Mikey Likes, DJNewStyle, Suburban Shakedown, Kieska UK's Weekly Showcase, Hear It Loud Radio, RobOnt Radio, Hate the Radio, Fandick, and The Badmonkey Show/The Asylum. In fact, without your help, no other internet radio station will likely be around to provide them either.
To be clear from the beginning, I beleive that the artists that we play at ThereIsNoRadio deserve payment for their work. The vast majority of the artists played at TiNR are hand chosen and mixed in with more popular music as an effort to promote them and encourage sales of their music. Many of them are artists like Fishbone that you will not hear on traditional corporate radio and it is stations like ours that get the word out about these artists. The artists in our heaviest rotation fall into this category.
The Copyright Royalty Board announced on Friday the increase in royalties for internet radio. The board rejected all arguments made by webcasters and adopted the proposal from SoundExchange (the royalty collection agency created by the RIAA). The rates we have been paying for the last year are the 2005 rates. The new rates for 2006 will be charged to us retroactively and they will increase every year for the foreseeable future. By 2009, we will be paying over twice the royalty cost per listener that we paid in 2005, which is way beyond our means at this point without a serious change in the way we do things. I do not have any desire to fill the station up with constant commercial ads to make up the difference in royalties. We do not have the corporate backing to cover this cost.
The new royalty rates will look like this:
2006 - $.0008 per performance
2007 - $.0011 per performance
2008 - $.0014 per performance
2009 - $.0018 per performance
2010 - $.0019 per performance
1 performance = 1 play of one song multiplied by the number of listeners tuned in for any part of it.
At 100 connections almost constantly tuned in for the year, we will owe about $864 in royalty payments per month or $10,368 for the year. If we get to 1000 listeners for the majority of the day, we will owe around $103,3680 for the year. These numbers are just the 2006 rates at $0.0008 per performance. As you can see, by 2008 at $0.0014 per performance, we will owe about $3,024/month and $36,288 per year with just 100 listeners. We do not know yet what we will owe the RIAA in retroactive charges for 2006.
These rates do not include the other royalty payments we make to SESAC and ASCAP. These rates also do not include the cost of bandwidth and server capacity. This may very well destroy not just ThereIsNoRadio, but also all non-corporate backed LEGAL internet radio. This will not affect the hundreds of thousands of internet radio stations operating illegally without paying royalties.
Everyone involved in ThereIsNoRadio is here only for their love of radio and none of us make a dime from it. As you can see from the above, we spend money to make these shows possible without any expectation of compensation.
What can you do?
Write to, or
Call your Representatives: http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Call your Senators: http://www.senate.gov/general/contac...nators_cfm.cfm
Call the Copyright Royalty Board: http://www.loc.gov/crb/contact/
Let them know that if they support this, they are willfully supporting the destruction of free and independent media, the interests of big business, and the silencing of our voices. Make sure they understand that they will not be receiving your vote if they refuse to intervene on behalf of small webcasters nationwide and force the Copyright Royalty Board and the RIAA to come up with reasonable royalty rates that do not threaten the existance of non-corporate owned internet radio. These rates only hurt those of us operating within the law. They do not do anything to stop piracy and they will not stop the pirate internet radio stations that continue to operate without paying royalties now.
Thank you all for supporting ThereIsNoRadio for as long as you have. I sincerely hope you will be able to continue that support.
For more information please also visit:
SaveNetRadio.org
thepetitionsite.com