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Futures for Webcasting: Regulatory Approaches in Australia and the U.S.

Bruns, Axel (2008) Futures for Webcasting: Regulatory Approaches in Australia and the U.S., in Bloustien, Gerry and Peters, Margaret and Luckman, Susan, Eds. Sonic Synergies: Music, Technology, Community, Identity, chapter 2, pages pp. 25-34. Ashgate.

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Abstract

In the history of the still-fledgling media form of online radio, the year 2002 will come to be seen as a time of drawn-out legal and legislative battles over sound recording royalties which seemed to spell the end for U.S. Webcasters at a number of points during the conflict. Protagonists in this trench warfare were a loose and increasingly fragmented coalition of online radio operators from the very small to the very large, and including Net-only Webcasters as well as the rebroadcasters of terrestrial stations, and on the other side the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and its SoundExchange royalty collection agency as the representatives of performance copyright holders (yet following a wider agenda which remains the subject of intense guesswork). Also appearing in a story which at times began to resemble an episode of The West Wing were a motley crew including the Librarian of Congress, an ugly CARP, and – in an unlikely role as saviour of the industry – veteran Republican Senator Jesse Helms.

Item Type:Book Chapter
Status:Published
Place of Publication:Aldershot, UK
Keywords:music; Webcasting; royalties; intellectual property; copyright; United States; Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Subjects:400000 Journalism, Librarianship and Curatorial Studies > 400100 Journalism, Communication and Media > 400104 Communication and Media Studies
410000 The Arts > 410100 Performing Arts > 410101 Music
390000 Law, Justice and Law Enforcement > 390100 Law > 390114 Intellectual Property
ID Code:13000
Deposited By:Bruns, Axel
Deposited On:13 March 2008
Alternative Locations:http://www.ashgate.com/
Copyright Owner:Copyright 2007 Gerry Bloustien, Margaret Peters and Susan Luckman
Additional Information:For more information about this book please refer to the publisher's website (see link) or contact the author.

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