You don't need a license to broadcast over the internet. The issues with RF broadcasting, and the regulation problems therein are in place for sensible reasons, thus to avoid Joe Megawatt deciding to broadcast over Selma's favorite listen, 1YA. Also, any radio doOd will know that CW transmission (even FM fits in here) creates sidebands, so you have to work your spectrum right to avoid A+B=C problems. What you DO need, however, is to be paying royalties to the local royalty distributor, in this case, APRA. If you were in the US, it'd be to the RIAA, or local subsidiary. If you are a charity, APRA will charge you a set fee, since the station is not a trading entity. If you aren't a charity, or some community owned outfit, they will expect a spreadsheet of what you've played, when, and how much, and will charge you the performers royalties thus. APRA isn't a license, it's an efficient means of distributing performers and writers the dollar they deserve. T. On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Chris Rigby wrote:
I've often wonder what would happen if someone put up a "tunable" web radio station that digitized the station that some web peruser decided to tune in. You could argue that it was not "you" that decided to stream any one particular station or piece of music. But then I remember that it's not nice to confuse poor helpless animals such as lawyers, judges and juries.
Something of this nature already exists in New Zealand. A couple of normal broadcast radio station take their broadcasts and encode them for internet broadcast. The question is... do they need these additional liscenses or are they ok with the ones they have... do they suddenly break the law by re-broadcasting over the internet?
Chris Rigby Senior Systems Engineer IHUG - Into the Internet
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