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From: "Jeff Barr" <jeff@vertexdev.com>
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Subject: Re: Digital radio playlists are prohibited?!
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Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 05:32:01 -0700

> Subject: Re: Digital radio playlists are prohibited?!
> From: James Rogers <jamesr@best.com>
> To: fork@spamassassin.taint.org
> Date: 25 Sep 2002 12:52:15 -0700
> 
> On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 01:19, Rohit Khare wrote:
> > Anyone heard of this law before?
> 
> 
> Absolutely.  More accurately, it is part of the RIAAs "regulation" for
> broadcasting music under their auspices.  This is actually part of the
> default statutory license the RIAA is compelled to issue.  You can try
> and establish your own contract with each of the individual publishers
> in addition to the writers, but that is a Herculean undertaking in its
> own right.  The details are really gross and complicated.

Perhaps the stations cannot publish digital playlists, but you can get
them from www.starcd.com anyway. They use some sort of
listening and recognition technology to identify the music played
on over 1000 US radio stations.

Jeff;


