Dutch podcast license set
p2pnet.net News:- BUMA/STEMRA, the Dutch collection organisation for composers, lyricists and music publishers, has come up with licensing rates for podcasting.
The license structure looks much like that for webcasting, of which the organisation thinks podcasting is a comparable form.
Commercial podcasters will have to pay a minimum of 85 euros (about $103 at the time of writing), and amateurs can get a license for 35 euros (about $42) per month for an unlimited number of podcasts.
The rate for amateurs seems rather high, though, coming to 420 euros (about $509) per year. And other collection organisations might set their own, additional rates.
BUMA/STEMRA says it will trust podcasters to notify the organisation about podcasts that include music, and pay the set rate.
But if enforcement of this license system follows in the future, how many amateur podcasters will stop playing music (and promoting the musicians they plug?
Are amateur podcasts set to become the new talk radio? Or will amateurs start to pick up the instruments themselves?
Rik Lambers – CoCo
[Lambers is a former researcher at the Institute for Information Law, Amsterdam, who's now in transition to a new full time job in the field of IP/Internet law. He's also an associate member of the European INDICARE project, which researches consumer issues related to DRM.]
July 20th, 2005 at 7:38 pm
Are amateur podcasts set to become the new talk radio? Or will amateurs start to pick up the instruments themselves?
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who cares? so-called “podcasts” are stupid things anyway.
July 20th, 2005 at 9:51 pm
“…so-called “podcasts” are stupid things anyway.”
Well, you are entitled to your opinion. As it is not humanly for me to listen to all the music that is out there I welcome the addition of so-called “podcasts”. I don’t like the silly iPod reference either, shoutcast, icecast, and webcasts in general have been out there for years. IMHO the good thing is that “taste-making” will become more a function of the people rather than the exclusive turf of the big music labels, and bands (and indi labels) that do not demand royalty payments for webcasts will naturally become more prevalent as webcasters start to shun all the DRMed, license minefield big label music. Pop music will return to what it was meant to be. Music that is popular with the public, unless of course big media figures out how to control access on the web, and belive me, they are working on it…
July 20th, 2005 at 11:31 pm
i agree they are stupid and only appeal to the thick aol type users!
July 21st, 2005 at 1:48 am
So you think radio is stupid, too?
Idiots, Morons and people who think p2p is be-all and end-all of media aquisition: come to p2pnet.net and comment!
July 21st, 2005 at 2:40 am
As commercial radio is setup today, yes it is stupid. There are so many commercials on the radio that listeners are leaving in droves. It has gotten so bad that ClearChannel has had to pay attention to that loss of listeners and broadcast less commercials to stem the flow. With the setup of todays radio it is no longer “The Place” to hear new music. The rotation of music comes in with the same songs, hour after hour with maybe 2 songs per week changed out of a rotation of 20 some songs. At a rate of 2 songs a week being new, it is hardly a place to learn of new music. That is one reason p2p is so popular. You can try a song or an album and judge for yourself if the album is worthy of your money. The continual hype of the cartel of each and every new offering has been short circuited and no longer do you have to pay for the trash to find out if the album is truly worth the money. Usually it isn’t.
Podcasts sometimes lead you to better enjoyment of those you might never have heard of otherwise. Sadly, even here they are trying to do a control factor. They know that by charging any sort of fee that it will cause a large drop off of contributions to the podcast. The cartels are behind this fee in seeing it come to frutation. Just like the earlier internet radio, they are looking for fees and not at a reasonable rate either. By dropping out those that were participating in the internet radio, they were able to jack up the prices charged by dealing with those that had commercial interests and not those that were doing it for a hobby. Those doing it for a hobby found that their hobby suddenly became an expensive one.
While these fees are not in the realm of internet radio broadcasts, no one has given any sort of indication that they will remain at this rate.
July 21st, 2005 at 10:21 am
of course the cartels are behind it. and they’re also starting to make their own podcasts wuth their own commercials.
i was one of the first members of live365 and for a year or so the service was free for founding members. then the cartels came and demanded dmca crap all over the place. suddenly i was shut out of my own station’s controls (and after a while i couldn’t even listen to it) because i couldn’t pay the new fees, which were very complicated.
live365 lost a lot of members and listeners.
this will also happen to so-called “podcasts”.
anyway, if i listen to radio, i listen to stations that don’t have commercials.