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License deal may kill UK streams to foreign countries
Found on http://www.kurthanson.com/archive/news/031706/index.asp
"A clause in the PPL's new license for commercial UK broadcasters may result in the shutdown of those stations' Internet streams to listeners everywhere else in the world beginning April 1.
The PPL (Phonographic Performance Limited) is the music industry organization in the United Kingdom that collects and distributes public performance and airplay royalties, and issues licenses to broadcasters which enable them to use copyright music. The organization has informed broadcasters that it is only in a position to grant Internet broadcasting rights for streams within the UK.
In other words, to stay legal, UK broadcasters would need to secure licensing from rights organizations in every country into which they stream." [...]
This means they are cutting one of the main features of the internet - worldwide availability of information/content. This can not be true!
~j0B
"A clause in the PPL's new license for commercial UK broadcasters may result in the shutdown of those stations' Internet streams to listeners everywhere else in the world beginning April 1.
The PPL (Phonographic Performance Limited) is the music industry organization in the United Kingdom that collects and distributes public performance and airplay royalties, and issues licenses to broadcasters which enable them to use copyright music. The organization has informed broadcasters that it is only in a position to grant Internet broadcasting rights for streams within the UK.
In other words, to stay legal, UK broadcasters would need to secure licensing from rights organizations in every country into which they stream." [...]
This means they are cutting one of the main features of the internet - worldwide availability of information/content. This can not be true!
~j0B
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