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Will Royalties Kill The (Online) Radio Star?

by Paul Bass | March 8, 2007 12:14 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Mini-editorial: Sign this petition and save Internet radio! A Copyright Review Board decision to jack up royalties is already reportedly putting some online stations out of business and endangering other terrific grassroots non-corporate outlets (like my two faves: Pandora and Paradise). Musicians deserve fair royalties, but recording companies are shooting themselves in the foot by supporting this huge change; innovative online radio has been their only new hope (and artists’ hope) of luring millions of listeners to purchase music they wouldn’t have otherwise heard. Click here, here , here and here to read coverage of the issue in other media. P.B.

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