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20 | Getting Started
recording without the permission of the copyright owner. It is your responsibility to comply with
the copyright laws of the United States and other countries in which you broadcast and to pay all
applicable royalties to the copyright owners when you become a webcaster.
There have been recent amendments to the copyright law regarding webcasting of sound recordings.
These new provisions allow webcasting under the terms of a statutory license, as a way to help
webcasters get permission without having to go to each sound recording’s owner. The statutory
license, however, has strict requirements that you must follow. Some of these requirements include
the payment of license fees, limitations on the number of songs from the same album or artist
that may be played in a three hour period (called the sound recording performance complement);
a prohibition on publishing advance playlists; and a requirement to identify the song, artist and
album on the website. There are other requirements as well. The Recording Industry Association of
America provides quite a bit of information on copyright law as it applies to webcasting, and both
ASCAP and BMI have created license agreements that they are willing to grant to webcasters that
they believe conform to the provisions of the new copyright rules for webcasting. For additional
information on the statutory license and other aspects of webcasting, please visit the following sites:
The U.S. Copyright Office
http://www.copyright.gov
The Recording Industry Association of America
http://www.riaa.com/issues/music/webcasting
ASCAP
http://www.ascap.com/weblicense/webintro.html
BMI
http://www.bmi.com/iama/webcaster/index.asp