Live Audio & Video Licensing

 

Loud City at http://www.loudcity.net provides licensing with one stop shopping at very affordable rates. Legal requirements and royalties can overwhelm many small webcasters. LoudCity can help. As a LoudCity member the US Copyright Office, SoundExchange, SESAC, ASCAP and BMI will legally recognize your broadcast. LoudCity provides the following benefits to webcasters: Affordable royalty micro payments based on music usage and web stats. *Webcasters are not required to fill out any paperwork with ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, SoundExchange or the US Copyright Office. Automated music usage reporting. Reports are automatically filed with ASCAP, BMI, SESAC and SoundExchange Currently LoudCity can only support broadcasters that fall into either category: That is artist name, space, dash, space song title. SpacialAudio’s SAM3:   SAM broadcasters can use SAM’s file output feature to generate statistic for LoudCity to analyze. SAM must also have a statistics relay configured for each of your audio servers. Also, If you are broadcasting Windows Media from SAM, your Windows Media streams must be hosted at a stream-host that supports MPM statistics (Our Servers Do).   Other Requirements:   As required by ASCAP, BMI and SESAC, your audio links can only be published on LoudCity.Net, no exceptions. As required by ASCAP, BMI and SESAC, your listeners can only tune in from your designated LoudCity station page, or optional custom launch page (part of the PRO package), no exceptions Your station can only participate in the following directories if you have signed up for the  LoudCity Pro package : AudioRealm, Shoutcast If you can't meet the above requirements, we can't work with you at Loudcity.com.   Broadcasters must also comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. FM and AM radio stations follow similar rules. Here are some important highlights: Your station must not be part of an "interactive service”. This means no personalized on-demand streaming or downloading of content. Sound recordings can’t be performed within one hour of a request by a listener or at a time designated by the listener.  In any three-hour period, you should not intentionally program more than three songs (and not more than two songs in a row) from the same recording; you should not intentionally program more than four songs (and not more than three songs in a row) from the same recording artist or anthology/box set. Archived programs (those that, when accessed, always start in the same place and play in the same order) should be at least five hours long, and should not be available for more than two weeks at a time.  Continuous "looped" programs (those that always perform in the same order, but are accessed in a continuous play stream) should be at least three hours long. Rebroadcasts of programs can be performed at scheduled times three times in a two-week period (for programs of less than one hour) and four times (for programs of an hour or more).  Do not publish advance program guides or use other means to pre-announce when particular sound recordings will be played. However, a webcaster may name one or two artists to illustrate the type of music on a particular channel; and, DJ "teaser" announcement using artists' names are permitted, but only those that do not specify the time a song will be played.  Use only sound recordings that are authorized for performance in the United States (e.g.: do not play bootleg recordings). Provide some means for the end user to identify the song, artist and album title of the recording as it is being played. Lastly, the DMCA also requires that you accommodate technological copyright protection measures or pass through any identification, which may be included in the song recording itself, as long as it does not impose substantial costs or burdens on the webcaster. Also, do not deploy or support technological means to evade these requirements; and, do not explicitly encourage home taping.