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Saturday, September 07, 2002
http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStory.cfm?ArticleID=3944 New copyright fees could silence school radio webcasts Corey Murray, Assistant Editor, eSchool News High school radio stations are used to operating on shoestring budgets. But new webcasting fees leveled by the Librarian of Congress and the U.S. Copyright Office could force many school-sponsored, online radio programs to take their last requests. In June, the U.S. Copyright Office announced that radio programs that stream copyrighted recordings over the internet must pay royalty fees to musicians and music labels. Although there is a minimum fee of $500 for smaller broadcasters, the fee system is retroactive to 1998. That means many K-12 stations could be asked to pay upwards of $2,000 to maintain their broadcasting rights this year....
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