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A Question About Royalty Payments For Music
tripredacus:
As I said, you're safe from legal liability but the broadcasting service is not. If you were to happen to be noticed by a label, they will send notice to the broadcasting company. And if that happens, then your account could be suspended or banned.
This entire music licensing issue is the sole reason why I never streamed anything.
oldgamerz:
I can't afford to pay over $500USD a day in royalty fees :(
I mean 5 cents a second plus 5 more cents per person listening. If the law ever does crack down it will take a LOT of enjoyment out of a whole lot of people, I hate money.
I just pray I can continue with my stream before it's too late
oldgamerz:
UPDATE: I called ASCAP again today and it turns out this whole licensing thing is easy to deal with, I will not owe them any more money until next year comes around, they said everything is good with my mobile license, I can and will broadcast whatever and whenever I want to, I am aware that not all artist use ASCAP but most of them do. I believe
I play American music anyway, in my opinion if these artist care about collecting their full amount of dough to aught sign up to ASCAP along with other agencies like BMI
ASCAP is said to hold a large Catalog but Google says BMI is better, but I use ASCAP since it is what Centanova Cast automatically tracks copyright sessions for the count
over 600,000 songwriters and 11 million musical compositions. currently use ASCAP.
What happens is if you want to get paid for your music you pay a one time fee of $50 to ASCAP and they will pay you a sum of cash based on a time frame, not sure how it works but, they can a check I guess monthly from ASCAP for royalty payments, it's a FREE money investment and if you are in a band you should take advantage of ASCAP checks
oldgamerz:
I need listeners my 500 was reduced to 3 daily in 4 days time frame since VLC decided to broadcast other streams instead of my own
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