Laws Etc.

[medicjoe95]

I know, theres Watershed and all that crap, and your surpose to have a lisence. But I want to know where can you actually read the full Watershed informatiom, and how to get a shoutcast license and everything else - So my radio is solely legal.

[NJK]

you don't need a licence to use shoutcast

You need to pay for broadcasting copyrighted music.
this is different for each country. use google to find the broadcasting laws that apply to you.

[teennation]

If you live in the United states, a great way to license your music would be through someone like Loudcity (http://www.loudcity.net) or SWCast (http://www.swcast.net, i've heard horror stories about them, though). These people can get you licensed pretty cheap, depending on how much money you make and how much you spend.

Jake

[TiredWings]

http://www.soundexchange.com/license...nsee_scws.html

Good luck, Im 45 days into the process. And compared to radio stations, webcasters are getting raped on the fees. And the BS about how they whine that radio stations dont have to pay fees. They do. Saw many a check going out to ASCAP.

TiredWings

[medicjoe95]

Been gone for a while, but if you broadcast music, illegally downloaded, and without a lisence. How can I report such radio? I know they don't have a lisence, the owner admitted it. And their Djs admit downloading music Via Kazaa durring broadcasting. Very stupid but I wish to report such organization.

[medicjoe95]

Bump

[NJK]

Originally posted by medicjoe95
Been gone for a while, but if you broadcast music, illegally downloaded, and without a lisence. How can I report such radio? I know they don't have a lisence, the owner admitted it. And their Djs admit downloading music Via Kazaa durring broadcasting. Very stupid but I wish to report such organization.

you want to backstab a fellow broadcaster just because he's illegal??

you SIR are unwanted here, either change you attitude or get the hell out of here, we do not need RIAA lovers around here!!!!

you seriously should think about what you wrote there.

But why stop there, you could easily report almost 2/3 of the stations you find on www.shoutcast.com.

now do us a favour and never come back again.

[Itztraxx]

One day I was sitting around and thought hey I want to make an Internet radio station using the SHOUTcast plug-in along with the server. I researched the laws to copyrighted music through this forum and other websites and decided not to play copyright music and support the people that gouge their promoters (web casters, radio stations etc.). I fully understand the copyright release agreement you need to have unsigned bans sign to play their music.

My Question is will these rules from the DMCA still apply to me for play unsigned bans? Do they apply no matter what you broadcast?

Rules/law:

You may not include in your Internet Radio Programs specific sound recordings within one hour of a request by a listener or at a time designated by the listener.

In any three-hour period, you should not intentionally program more than three songs (and not more than two songs in a row) from the same recording; you should not intentionally program more than four songs (and not more than three songs in a row) from the same recording artist or anthology/box set.

Continuous looped Internet Radio Programs may not be less than three hours long.

Retransmissions of Internet Radio Programs may be performed at scheduled times as follows:

Internet Radio Programs of less than one hour: no more than three times in a two-week period;

Internet Radio Programs longer than one hour: no more than four times in any two-week period.

You should not publish advance program guides or use other means to pre-announce when particular sound recordings will be played or the order in which they will be played.

You should only include in your Internet Radio Programs sound recordings that are authorized for performance in the United States.

You should pass through (and not disable or remove) identification or technological protection information included in the sound recording (if any).
Thanks for your help


- TraxX

[SorceryKid]

The DMCA is a statutory license. The provisions are binding in effect without exemption of the the origin of the music recordings (unless they are your own or the copyright period has expired or the copyright was expressly waived by the copyright holder). Thusly, if you should receive written authorization from the unsigned/independent performing artist or from the owner of the music recording, then those terms could supercede the public performance stipulations (i.e. restrictions) of the DMCA.

Hope this helps,

--Randall

[Itztraxx]

Randall,

Thanks alot that does help.

[Itztraxx]

sorry for my spelling i can spell bands lol just fingers go faster than the brain sometimes.

[doctorforsh]

ok here i go,,i live in finland and im playing shoutcast playing alot of prerecorded DJ sets from UK,,mainly DJs i know etc,what is the laws on this,,,will i get into trouble etc

[Nick@ss]

if the music that is on the mix has a copyright then you are just as liable as everyone else,

the chances of getting into trouble are fairly unheard of but it does happen and you should be aware of this,

the only otherway you could get in trouble is if someone like medicjoe (above)decides to inform on you like he has mentioned he would like to do to other broadcasters,

[medicjoe95]

No no no, I want to shut down somebody I hate =P

[Rozzville]

Yo I am using this message forum for the first time. I am in the process of building my web site and trying to find some music to play. I didn't know that dot am and dot fm addresses were so pricey, but I guess it's worth it if you make some money off of the broadcast somehow. I read through the plug-in info. It looks easy to set up but is it really? I don't want to do live shows. I want to do a on demand type of broadcast where I can do like 5 shows in advance and use those mixes as my broadcast through out the weeks. Can I store an archive mix and broadcast it? Also, can I set up more than one account with Shoutcast and use each channel I sign up for to broadcast different music genres? Please someone let me know.

And about that cat Medicjoe, he's not anyone I want to deal with. I'm just trying to provide a quality service for my region. So home boy bounce and don't come back.

[medicjoe95]

Well first of all, i'm not your home boy.

Second of all, unless you misunderstood, you don't use shoutcast for like, an AM/FM radio station, it's for an online radio station. So if you host it on your computer, it would be like 123.123.123:8000 etc.etc.

[systrum]

hey, medicjoe95, i think rozzville knows that. he's talking about the URL for his site. u really ought to take spaceplay's advice man.