Thursday, May 10, 2007
Public Radio Webcasting Fees
On March 2nd, The Copyright Loyalty Board issued a ruling that will dramatically increase the royalty payments owed to rights holders to stream sound recordings of music on the Internet, including public radio stations like WTMD.
While all of us in public radio believe the people who write and perform the music we play should be fairly compensated, this decision raises the fees and creates a complex reporting system that some stations feel is so complex that discontinuing web streaming of our signals could be considered.
The CRB affects Public Radio stations because it:
- Eliminates the distinction between noncommercial and commercial media
- Requires burdensome, complicated record-keeping
- Penalizes public radio for its mission of bringing new music and artists to the American Public.
- Sets a chilling precedent for future rights discussions for over the air broadcasts that could compromise public radio's ability to deliver noncommercial programming to our listeners.
As we study exactly what affect this decision will have on WTMD, one thing is clear. Additional expenses at the level the CRB is suggesting could require WTMD to eliminate current services and not have the resources to fund additional programming projects.
Public Radio has appealed ton Congress to help keep public service web streaming viable. The Internet Radio Equality Act (H.R. 2060 Text of Bill) would change this ruling by providing rights holders reasonable royalty payments while protecting noncommercial public radio webcasters like WTMD. As of May 9, two Maryland Representatives are cosponsors, Roscoe Bartlett (R-6th) and Elijah Cummings (D-7th).
UPDATE: May 10 3:30 PM--Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Sam Brownback (R-KS) today introduced the "Internet Radio Equality Act" in the Senate.
UPDATE: May 30th 5:00 PM-- Tell Them Public Matters has a variety of resources for you to use to tell your Congress people how you feel about this issue.You can learn more at Save Net Radio. Bug has created a list of resources about this decision and we will be updating this post as these bills that could resolve the situation move forward, so check back often.
UPDATE: Here is a list of Cosponors for HR 2060. If your Congressperson is not on the list, please send them an email and ask them to become a Cosponsor.
Stephen Yasko
General Manager
Monday, May 7, 2007
WTMD A-Z List
We will be putting up the Artists we play and you can continue to Support WTMD by purchasing these Albums through our WTMD A-Z Amazon CD Store!
A
ABC - The Look of Love
Arctic Monkeys - Leave Before the Lights
Alexi Murdoch - All My Days
ALO - Maria
Apples in Stereo - Energy
Andrew Bird - Heretics
Allman Brothers - Wasted Words
Allen Toussaint - Yes We Can Can
Amy Winehouse - Rehab
Adam Ant - Goody Two Shoes
Al Green - Take Me to the River
Augustana - Stars & Boulevards
Tori Amos - Bouncing Off Clouds
The Animals - Don't Bring Me Down
Aretha Franklin - Rock Steady
Aztec Camera - Oblivious
Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1
Amos Lee - Night Train
Aimee Mann - Pavlov's Bell
Arrested Development - Mr. Wendal
Average White Band - Pick Up the Pieces
Ani DiFranco - What If No One's Watching
Ryan Adams - New York, New York
Aqualung - Brighter Than Sunshine
Alejandro Escovedo - Iwoya
Avett Brothers - Die Die Die
B
B-52s - Good Stuff
Bad Religion - 21st Century (Digital Boy)
Beck - Hell Yes
Blondie - The Tide is High
Built to Spill - Liar
Blur - There's No Other Way
Black Crowes - Remedy
Black Keys - Strange Desire
Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
Beatles - Come Together
Belly - Gepetto
Be Good Taynas - The Littles Birds
A Band of Bees - Chicken Payback
Bloc Party - The Prayer
Brazilian Girls - All About Us
Marc Broussard - Home
The Bridge - Shake 'Em Down
The Bogues - My Name is Love
Barenaked Ladies - If I Had $1,000,000
Boomtown Rats - She's So Modern
Better than Ezra - Good
Bruce Cockburn - Wondering Where the Lions Are
Brandi Carlile - What Can I Say
Blind Melon - No Rain
David Bowie - Fame
Beautiful South - We Are Eachother
Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice
C
Johnny Cash - Cry! Cry! Cry!
Cold War Kids - Saint John
Cracker - Duty Free
Clash - Spanish Bombs
Coldplay - In My Place
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Over and Over Again
Crowded House - Chocolate Cake
Lloyd Cole - Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken
Calexico - Quattro
Tracy Chapman - Fast Car
Shawn Colvin - Sunny Came Home
Citizen Cope - Brother Lee
Chemical Brothers - Do It Again
Cassandra Wilson - Go to Mexico
Counting Crows - Daylight Fading
Cheap Trick - Southern Girls
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
Cornershop - Brimful of Asha
Cat Empire - Sly
Carbon Leaf - Desperation Song
Cat Power - Living Proof
Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane
The Cure - Staring At The Sea
The Changes - Today Is Tonight
The Cars - Moving In Stereo
D
Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone
Desmond Dekker - Rudy Got Soul
Dixie Chicks - Not Ready To Make Nice
The Decemberists - 16 Military Wives
Duran Duran - Ordinary World
Nick Drake - One of These Things First
Death Cab for Cutie - Crooked Teeth
Damien Rice - Cannonball
Dar Williams - Echoes
Dire Straits - Walk of Life
Dr. Dog - My Old Ways
The Doors - Land Ho!
Donavon Frankenreiter - Move By Yourself
Derek & the Dominos - Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad
Delbert McClinton - Old Weakness
Dinosaur Jr. - Start Choppin
Damnwells - I Am A Leaver
Dave Matthews Band - What Would You Say?
David Gray - Be Mine
Thomas Dolby - Silk Pyjamas
Brett Dennen - So Much More
John Denver - Poems, Prayers and Prom
David Gilmour - On an Island
The Dears - Ticket to Immortality
Del Amitri - Stone Cold Sober
Dada - Dizz Knee Land
E
Elvis Presley - Burning Love
Elvis Costello - Watching the Detective
Elvis Perkins - While You Were Sleeping
English Beat - Mirror in the Bathroom
Eels - Saturday Morning
Melissa Etheridge - Bring Me Some Water
Emmylou Harris - Here I Am
Elliot Smith - A Fond Farewell
Eddie from Ohio - Number Six Driver
Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky
Erin McKeown - To The Stars
Eagles - Pretty Maids All In A Row
Kathleen Edwards - In State
Echo & the Bunnymen
Editors - Munich
Eva Castillo - I Can't Stay
Eurythmics - Sisters are Doin' It For Themselves
Etienne De Rocher - The Lizard Song
Euphoria - Back Against the Wall
Elton John - Honky Cat
Edwin Starr - War
F
Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action
Flaming Lips - The W.A.N.D.
Fountains of Wayne - '92 Subaru
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
Fatboy Slim - Wonderful Night
The Fratellis - Flathead
The Fray - Over My Head
Faces - Stay With me
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Two Tribes
Feist - My Moon My Man
Fiona Apple - Criminal
Five For Fighting - '65 Mustang
Frou Frou - Breathe In
French Kicks - No Mean Time
Bryan Ferry - It's All Over Now Baby
Finn Brothers - Won't Give In
Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove
The Fixx - One Thing Leads to Another
The Features - Contrast
Flying Lizards - Money
Four Tops - Ain't No Woman Like the One I Got
Foo Fighters - My Hero
Fools & Horses - Frera
Fine Young Cannibals - Good THing
Freedy Johnston - Can't Sink this Town
Fleetwood Mac - Dreams
The Frames - Falling Slowly
Ben Folds - Gracie
G
Grateful Dead - Cassidy
Great Lake Swimmers - I Am Part of A Large Family
Goldspot - Rewind
G. Love - Love
Gillian Welch - Wayside/Back In Time
Gran Bel Fisher - Moment
Galactic - Uptown Odyssey
Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
Gomez - See The World
The Go-Betweens - Cattle and Cane
Grey Eye Glances - Close Your Eyes
Peter Gabriel - Shock the Monkey
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals - Ah mary
Gladys Knight - Midnight Train to Georgia
Golden Smog - 5-22-02
Marvin Gaye - Ain't That Peculiar
The Guggenheim Grotto - Told You So
Guster - Careful
Roger Glover - Queen of England
Guillemots - Trains to Brazil
H
Ben Harper - Better Way
Jimi Hendrix - Bold As Love
John Hiatt - Memphis in the Meantime
Hoodoo Gurus - I Want You Back
The Hold Steady - Stuck Between Stations
Hot Chip - Over and Over
HEM - Half Acre
Robyn Hitchcock 'n' The Egyptians - Madonna of the Wasps
John Hammond - Slick Crown Vic
Bruce Hornsby - Circus on the Moon
Colin Hay - Love Plus One
George Harrison - Give Me Love
Herbie Hancock - Stitched Up
The Holmes Brothers - Shine
Ari Hest - They're On To Me
James Hunter - People Gonna Talk
PJ Harvey - Down By The Water
Heavycoats - Sea Song
The Hidden Cameras - A Woo
The Hiders - Everything I Wanted
Ed Harcourt - Born In The '70s
Handsome Boy Modeling - Breakdown
Jesse Harris - All My Life
Sarah Harmer - Almost
Terri Hendrix - Truth Is Strange
Josh Wesley Harding - Negative Love
I
Iguanas - Late at Night
Indigenous - Rest of My Days
Interpol - The Heinrich Maneuver
Iggy Pop - Nightclubbing
Chris Isaak - Let Me Down Easy
Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine
Isaac Hayes - Walk On By
Isley Brothers - It's Your Thing
Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek
Iron & Wine - Jezebel
Idlewild - El Capitan
Icicle Works
The Ike Reilly Assassination - When Irish Eyes Are Burning
Impressions - People Get Ready
Ike & Tina Turner - Proud Mary
Ingrid Michaelson - Breakable
Incubus - Anna Molly
Ian McCullouch - Love In Veins
J
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Joseph Arthur - Devil's Broom
Joe Jackson - I'm the Man
John Butler Trio - Daniella
Jackie Greene - Hollywood
John Mayer - Bigger Than My Body
James Brown - I Got You
The Jam - That's Entertainment
Jonah Smith - When We Say Goodnight
Jonny Lang - Lie To Me
Jayhawks - Tailspin
Josh Ritter - Kathleen
Mason Jennings - Be Here Now
J.J. Cale - The Problem
Jeff Beck - Over Under Sideways Down
Jamiroquai - Drifting Along
Jackson Browne - Tender Is The Night
Janis Joplin - Try
Jem - They
Jurassic 5 - Work It Out
Jack Johnson - Bubble Toes
Joni Mitchell - A Case of You
Jane's Addiction - Jane Says
Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers
Jean Knight - Mr. Big Stuff
Jet - Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
Josh Rouse - Come Back
James - Laid
Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye
Judd & Maggie - Perfectly
Julian Cope - World Shut Your Mouth
Julian Velard - Joni
J-Roddy Walston and the Business - Rock and Roll the 2nd
Joe Strummer - Coma Girl
Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come
Jarvis Cocker - Don't Let Him Waste You
Jenny Lewis - Rise Up With Fists!!
Jeb Loy Nichols - They Don't Know
K
Keane - Somewhere Only We Know
Kings of Leon - On Call
K's Choice - Not An Addict
Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby
Mark Knopfler - Boom, Like That
Keller Williams - Life
KT Tunstall - Suddenly I See
Ben Kweller - Penny On The Train Track
The Kinks - Read My Mind
Mat Kearney - Nothing Left To Lose
Kasey Chambers - Barricades & Brickwalls
L
Led Zeppelin - Gallows Pole
LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum
Los Lobos - Shakin' Shakin' Shakes
Lily Allen - Knock 'Em Out
Lucinda Williams - 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
Luna - Malibu - Love Nest
Lake Trout - Street Fighting Man
Lyle Lovett - Church
Nick Lowe - Raging Eyes
Los Lonely Boys - My Way
Betty LaVette - Joy
Love and Rockets - Kundalini Express
Lemonheads - Become the Enemy
The La's - There She Goes
John Lennon - Whatever Gets You Thru
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - The Sons of Cain
Luscious Jackson - Naked Eye
Los Straightjackets - Can You Dig It?
Lone Justice - Ways to be Wicked
Jerry Lee Lewis - Pink Cadillac
Leonard Cohen - Everybody Knows
Low Millions - Eleanor
Ben Lee - Gamble Everything for Love
Daniel Lanois - For th Beauty of Wynona
Annie Lennox - Walking on Broken Glass
Eric Lindell - Feel Like I Do
The Lightning Seeds - The Life of Riley
La Rocca - This Life
Jamie Lidell - Multiply
The Last Town Chorus - Modern Love
Greg Laswell - Sing, Theresa Says
Toby Lightman - Don't Wake Me
Patty Larkin - Wolf At The Door
The Little Willies - Streets of Baltimore
M
Martin Sexton - Happy
M. Ward - To Go Home
Tift Merritt - Good Hearted Man
James Morrison - You Give Me Something
Mazzy Star - Halah
Moby - Natural Blues
Medeski Martin and Wood - NIght Marches
The Meters - Hand Clapping Song
Mindy Smith - Come to Jesus
Willy Mason - Save Myself
Madness - One Step Beyond
Men at Work - It's A Mistake
Marshall Crenshaw - Someday, Someway
Paul McCartney - Ever Present Past
Morphine - All Wrong
Margot & the Nuclear So & So's - Skeleton Key
Midlake - Head Home
Mojave Three - Breaking the Ice
Mika - Grace Kelly
Magic Numbers - Love Me Like You
Mott the Hoople - All the Young Dudes
Bob Marley - Buffalo Soldier
Damien Marley - All Night
Morrissey - Suedehead
Muse - Starlight
Meat Puppets - Backwater
Jesse Malin - Don't Let Them Take You Down
George McCrae - Rock Your Baby
Maktub - You Can't Hide
Matisyahu - King Without A Crown
Mates of State - Goods
Michael Franti - Yes I Will
Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy
Modest Mouse - We've Got Everything
My Morning Jacket - Off the Record
moe. - Crab Eyes
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - The Impression That I Get
Malcolm McLaren - Madam Butterfly
Billy Miles - We Can't Help You
Morcheeba - Trigger Hippie
Matthew Ryan - Little Things
Shawn Mullins - Lullaby
Nellie McKay - David
Bob Mould - See A Little Light
Marcy Playground - Sex and Candy
Marc Cohn - Walk Through the World
N
Neko Case - Hold On, Hold On
Norah Jones - Sinkin' Soon
Leona Naess - Calling
Nouvelle Vague - Guns of Brixton
Harry Nilsson - Everybody's Talkin'
Anna Nalick - Breathe (2 AM)
The Nightwatchman - The Road I Must Travel
Neil Finn - Driving Me Mad