Internet radio stations: Are they legal?
@complexvanilla (653)
India
April 4, 2007 6:35pm CST
A great many of us listen to internet radio channels. It keeps me fueled with a limitless supply of music. They encourage several upcoming musicians, but they also play a great deal of copyrighted music without paying the royalties to the original right holders. While I certainly enjoy listening to music, it's not exactly nice to know that the music that I'm listening to is strictly speaking, stolen, and I too am party to the crime. What do intellectual property rights mean to you? Do you respect them?
2 responses
@lordwarwizard (35747)
• Singapore
5 Apr 07
Of course they are legal. It is like asking if using a car radio to listen to radio stations is legal.
But then again, I think you are asking about unorthodox radio stations or those podcasts thingy that are not branched out from real offline companies. No idea there. :P
@Myrrdin (3599)
• Canada
5 Apr 07
While there are some radio stations on the internet that do that, most register properly and pay the licensing fees in order to play the copyrighted music. Intellectual property rights are important to a point however I think in some cases the laws exist more to pay lawyers than to benifit artists.
