Posted by admin on May 15th, 2007 under Club Dance Music

As promised, here is the most up to date information pertaining to the recent rulings by the Copyright Review Board and online radio stations

It is becoming more and more obvious that in a years time, the majority of our beloved internet radio stations will be a part of the past. Webcasters’ are pooling their efforts to fight the Copyright Review Board’s ruling to pay a fee to SoundExchange, former RIAA division tasked with collecting and distributing online radio-licensing fees, but the battle is a hard one to say the least.

All webcasters’ have until the deadline of July 15th to pay their royalty payments. This dead line includes all of 2006, and the first 5 months of 2007. As you can imagine this is going to have a huge financial impact on many online stations.

The full article can be found here. Please take the time to read this article and the others we have posted here on DanceNode to educate yourselves about the situation. The more educated we all become the more we can be aware of the implications to us and our scene.

As we have always promised, we will keep you up to date as information is released.