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Why Does The RIAA Hate Webcasters? Webcasters Don’t Play Very Much RIAA Music - TechDirt
87% of the music you hear on the radio is from an RIAA-member record label. However, when it comes to music on webcasts, the story is quite different. Jon Healy, at the LA Times, points out that only 44% of music on webcasts are from RIAA labels.
In his post Indie Labels and the Importance of Webcasting, Michael Geist references the above LA Times article but addresses some very important Canadian specific issues:
First, given that independent labels are responsible for nearly 90 percent of new Canadian music, the importance of creating a legal environment that supports webcasting is magnified in Canada. Second, in light of questions about the fairness of copyright collective distribution models for the private copying levy (which may be similarly disporportionately skewed toward the majors and a select few Canadian artists), the reliance on conventional radio sampling and sales may be a very poor proxy for identifying the music that Canadians are listening to and copying. Third, it reinforces the need for policy makers and politicians to reach out beyond CRIA, which represents the majors, and instead pay far more attention to the independent labels (CIRPA) and the artists (CMCC).
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