On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Tim Shackleton wrote:
Friendly reminder. There's an organisation called APRA (Australasian Performing Rights Association) who need to know if music owned or licensed under any copyright is being broadcast in any form, to any persons. Don't forget to tell them if you're streaming other peoples property, or they'll get their dogs out.
It's worse than that even. I had a talk to a guy at Radio NZ about streaming out them and apparantly their legal opinions are that broadcasting material over the Internet is completely seperate from normal radio type licences. He gave me the impression that the music companies won't let you just send stuff out under a normal radio station lisense but what an additional cut of any music broadcast. NZ only *might* be okay but almost certainly not International. Hence he was only able to make the programs they created themselves rather than streaming everything. So while in theory you can just pony up a couple of hundred $ a year for a non-commercial license in practice I wouldn't recomend it until the whole legal situation is sorted out. -- Simon Lyall. | Newsmaster | Work: simon.lyall(a)ihug.co.nz Senior Network/System Admin | | Home: simon(a)darkmere.gen.nz ihug, Auckland, NZ | Asst Doorman | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog