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June 10, 2005

More details on music licensing

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Posted by Matt May

Tod Maffin of CBC and I Love Radio reports that music licensing will be based on where you're hosted. That is, if you're Canadian, and you're hosted in the United States, you'll have to license from ASCAP and BMI rather than Canada's SOCAN agency. The coverage will be Web-wide.

What Todd says here is evidence that someone, somewhere is not just thinking about this stuff at the performing rights organizations, but coordinating with others. This is a good thing, to be sure. However, unless I've missed something, nobody from the record labels or Harry Fox has signed off as yet, so we're still looking at around $600 (US or Canadian) per year to license the performances, and what's behind Door Number Three for the master and reproduction rights on each track. And so it goes.

Right now, I'm wondering who will be the first offshore podcaster. That kind of thing has quite a history in the analog world.

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