PPCA disappointed at streaming shutdown. CRA disappointed with PPCA
2 February 2014 · News
The PPCA has not taken kindly to regional stations pulling the plug on streaming, rejecting CRA’s claim that a simulcast licence results in ‘double dipping.’ Joan Warner has hit back at the PP...
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Tags: copyright dispute | CRA | internet streaming | PPCA | simulcasting
Lets not forget that the record companies and artists would be screwed without the radio stations. If there were no radio stations, how else do people hear the music enough to like it, spend money and buy the music? It all starts with radio, the record companies need radio as much as radio needs the record companies to supply them the music.
Don't penalize internet radio, help make it better, take advantage of the massive global internet medium to promote the new music, so that it'll generate even more dollars.
Congratulations on presenting such a detailed and comprehensive article on this thorny issue. I don’t want to take sides on the controversy itself - the relationship between FTA broadcasting and online/new media is one of those issues where the goalposts are receding faster than the approaching play – but to say that if those with the authority to decide the outcomes are given the kind of balanced arguments presented in this article, there is hope of a resolution. Oh, and goodwill on all sides, of course.