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Small Webcasters Take On RIAA
News A group of small Webcasters on Wednesday filed an antitrust suit against the Recording Industry Association of America, alleging that the trade association tried to push independent music stations offline.
[August 28, 2003, 12:09]
Small Webcasters Get Fee Reprieve
News Small Webcasters won't immediately have to pay new, potentially steep royalty fees due next week, the group responsible for collecting payments said Friday. The new rules for Webcasters, under which Internet radio stations will be required to pay...
[October 21, 2002, 8:58]
Small Webcasters Put Faith In Latest Bill
News Although record labels criticised the sum as too low, small Webcasters said the fees would quickly add up to thousands of dollars, driving many out of business. The bill was welcomed by Webcasters, which have lobbied hard for a legislative response...
[July 29, 2002, 11:28]
Music Industry Casts New Net For Streaming Royalties
News Dubbed SoundExchange, the collective will gather and distribute money from subscription music sites and noninteractive Webcasters, such as Yahoo, which stream copyrighted music via the Internet. The radio stations are claiming an exemption, and we...
[November 29, 2000, 10:32]
Royalty Fees Threaten Net Radio
News As part of landmark digital copyright legislation passed in 1998, Congress said "Webcasters" would be required to pay labels and artists a fee to play their music online. Because "many Webcasters are currently generating very little revenue, a...
[June 21, 2002, 12:46]
Treaty Casts Shadow On Public Domain
News The treaty -- which was proposed by the Bush administration and is backed by Yahoo, the Digital Media Association and other US Webcasters -- generally seeks to extend to Webcasters the same level of international intellectual property protection...
[November 7, 2003, 14:50]
Putting A Price On Net Music
News We've been asking Webcasters to run their businesses for years without knowing what their basic costs are," said Eric Sheirer, an analyst with Forrester Research. The RIAA sued a handful of the leading Webcasters last month, charging that they...
[July 30, 2001, 10:56]
Royalties Killed The Web Radio Star
News The decision by the Librarian of Congress is the result of a protracted battle that pitted the labels against Webcasters and smaller radio stations. KPIG joins a long list of Webcasters that have turned off their streams in the face of the fees.
[July 22, 2002, 10:36]
Copyright Bill May Severely Limit Rights
News A less incendiary section of the draft would give a minor boost to Webcasters by saying they're off the hook for temporary copies, called cached or buffered copies, made while streaming music to listeners.
[July 12, 2002, 8:02]
Net Radio Fees Push Some Broadcasters Underground
News Rick Boucher, D-Va.and Jay Inslee, D-Wash.say they're considering legislation that would allow small Webcasters to continue. As technology develops to hide Webcasters from royalty-hunters, it also will make it more difficult for them to find an...
[July 3, 2002, 14:36]
OtsAV TV
Downloads OtsAV TV allows Webcasters, Broadcasters, Solution Providers, and Businesses to broadcast smooth quality video with automated mixing, scrolling ticker, animated titling, and scheduling. Three editions are available - Webcaster, Narrowcaster and...
[January 15, 2008, 11:16]
Tech Bolsters Webcasting's New Era
News Radio Free Virgin, one of the most popular free Webcasters, was one of the first large companies to take advantage of peer-to-peer Webcasting technology created by Blue Falcon Networks. A few medium-sized Net companies remain, but for the most part...
[October 22, 2002, 11:41]
Open Source MP3 Project Continues After Parent's Demise
News Thomson hasn't yet decided what to charge Webcasters using the MP3 format. Webcasters ultimately will be in the same boat, probably as soon as next year. Open source software developers hoping to create a free replacement for MP3 technology are...
[December 12, 2000, 8:54]
OtsAV Radio
Downloads OtsAV Radio allows Webcasters, Broadcasters, Solution Providers, and Businesses to broadcast with quality automated mixing, dynamics processing, and scheduling. Three editions are available--Webcaster, Narrowcaster and Broadcaster.
[January 15, 2008, 11:01]
Digital Video Archiving: The Evolving Reality Of Any Content, Anywhere, Anytime
White Papers With new webcasters distributing video content over the Internet, traditional broadcasters can't ignore this distribution infrastructure. With all this digital content comes a clear trend to push it into the network where text, graphics and images...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
MSN Joins Net Music Skirmishes
News As technology goes, the new service is far from groundbreaking -- visitors can listen to thousands of online radio stations much like those at AOL Time Warner's Spinner.com and other Webcasters' sites.
[April 4, 2001, 9:30]
File Swappers Rush To Form Lobby Groups
News Radio broadcasters and Webcasters currently use this model. Peer-to-peer companies are jumping on the trade-group bandwagon this summer, hoping to counteract entertainment industry efforts to stifle them.
[July 8, 2003, 8:24]
RIAA Holds Fire On Webcast Licensing Scheme
News There have been complaints from some Webcasters and independent artists that a body dominated by the RIAA would side with the major labels in the event of conflict between the labels and these smaller groups.
[October 9, 2000, 15:11]
Webcasting 'excluded From WIPO Broadcasting Treaty'
News Cory Doctorow, the former European affairs coordinator for the EFF, warned last year that giving such protection to webcasters could allow them to monopolise material covered by Creative Commons licences, and would enforce the use of DRM.
[May 8, 2006, 17:10]
Hackers Claim To Use ITunes For Music Sharing
News Long and bitter battles over the cost of those licences, even for hobbyist Webcasters, have been fought in front of Congress and federal copyright regulators. Apple Computer's iTunes software has apparently opened up a new way for Macintosh owners...
[May 13, 2003, 8:10]
