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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2017 1:04:45 GMT
What Can We Do Without Going to Jail
We take the copyright rules for programs on our radio stations very seriously and do our best to comply so as to be a neighbor in good standing in the internet community.
With that in mind I've come across a copyright statement issued on a webcam site that seems to allow them to show webcams under the Fair Use provision of copyright law.
Quick aside: no worry, opentopia.com is a family friendly site showing mostly security and highway cams.
Here is the message they show titled: Copyright.
These videos are most likely copyrighted by whoever owns the cameras. The snapshots you see here appear as fair use according to copyright law. However, if a picture from your webcam appears here and you object to that, let us know and it will be removed.
Think about it. If we apply the same approach to our radio streams it might read:
Some programs heard on this station are most likely copyrighted by the program producers. Our programs are scheduled as fair use according to copyright law. However if you object to your program being heard here, let us know and it will be removed.
This webcam site has been online for many years and keeps operating, so I guess they have been allowed to operate in their particular way.
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Post by Boomer on Oct 15, 2017 10:55:41 GMT
Under the radar
True, when you hear 'webcam' you could think of people taking their tops off and putting on a show, like the spam pop ups want to push when you try to watch a movie on some sites. That was the same site that had a window that said my Windows XP system is infected with two viruses! and to call them, FAKE news!
I think a lot of it is about exposure, like if the webcam site had a big audience, attention would be focused on it, someone would bring up rights about their video, or a lawyer 'broker' would intercede and try to throw the book at them for payment somehow.
Youtube used to be cool when it was small. I was there in the mid-2000s with my drug store Flip cam like so many others did at that time, posting short videos of walking around my neighborhood and the antics of cats and Dogs, fun stuff. I had an audience, and my videos had some views. Now it's more of a mess for producers, they've turned Ytube into a machine since Google bought it, and there are many hurdles and pitfalls, and it's more like a job to work it now, so many people wanting their cut, much scrutiny on everything that goes on there.
Streaming has been like that, enough were doing it that people saw the money. You can still do it like pirate radio, and just not pay, if you're small.
I have to think if every citizen used their rights to Part-15, antenna stations or carrier current, that someone would try to get in there and look for payment. With carrier current, maybe a power company would want some money for your signal traveling on their lines, or the ever present music moneybags, or EAS.
I don't know what they could charge over the air antennas with, maybe music playback. Likely it's not going to happen, one reason many think of P-15 broadcasting at all is that it's so easy and unencumbered, build a kit, go on the air, no permission, fees or strings attached.
If it became a fad to broadcast, and regulation came, most stations would probably fold because it's not that important to them, and kids wouldn't use it for a camp project or science fair, building a Raspberry PI transmitter or putting a few parts together.
Now Youtube is a must have, people are addicted, and for good reason, it brings across the world's education and culture to your screen, a communications utopia, as was hoped for in the early days of radio broadcasting. If no one cared, or just cared for it moderately, the hawks wouldn't have been invited in.
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Post by thelegacy on Oct 15, 2017 16:36:55 GMT
This reminds me of one of the reasons that there is a big push for Digital Radio. The real hidden reason is DRM whis is short for Digital Rights Management which is a set of rules that are set by the record labels in order to stop the copying of content.
To understand this better we have to rewind to when satellite Radio’s were manufactured by some companies with a digital audio recorder to record shows. This meant that one could record a set of songs they like and you could label these songs. This would give you a music collection which was delivered by the broadcasters.
The RIAA was furious about the fact that you could get music for FREE but under the fair use act you had the right to time shift which is why we had VCR’s in the day which later became DVR’s. But the DRM flag would guarantee you could not for example connect a satellite Radio to your computer and copy the music inside the satellite Radio’s hard drive (at least not drag and drop). WE all know you can simply use the headphone jack or in the case of a component Stereo satellite Radio use a cassette recorder, Line IN on a mixer or device like a mini disc recorder or CD recorder and copy it.
Digital Radio (HD Radio, DAB) will have this hidden agenda which is one major reason the NAB is gearing up these stations for the big switch with their web seminars. I do believe from the likes of what happened to Satellite Radio its the record companies way to give themselves a false sense of security. One can still copy the songs even though there is no headphone jack.
You forget that many FM Transmitters do have a bluetooth link. This means that if the receiver has a bluetooth audio out the content can be piped into a part 15 compliant FM Transmitter and then received by an ordinary FM Radio and then the audio will go through your stereo system opening the door once again without restrictions from DRM.
Why Bother with these constraints when they can easily be circumvented?
There is more to DRM than the false front of controlling copyright. The real deal is that companies like Apple could have a proprietary format that is incompatible with any other company such as Microsoft or Sony. Their audio could be saved as something like m4P or M4A which is of course not compatible with the Mp3 format. So even non copy protected audio could not be copied onto a device of a different brand.
Digital Radio’s Evil Plan
The developers of HD Radio did NOT want anyone to be able to decode the signal without paying for the license to decode it. And for many years the secret to encoding and decoding HD Radio was a secret until some hackers found out that HD Radio was simply encoded with a modified version of AAC+ which was originally developed by Apple how did we guess. And now that the secret has been openly disclosed there should be chinese knock off HD Radio’s sold very cheap as opposed to the $125 entry level units we see now.
Now that it's been hacked will we see lobbyist try and stop it long enough to rewrite the code yhears later?
I believe the answer is YES but rather or not the big corporate stations and the FCC will ever buy the idea again will be yet another issue to deal with. Do we truly learn from our mistaes? Stay Tuned.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2017 16:55:24 GMT
You Learn What We Teach
The Legacy poses the question: "Do we truly learn from our mistakes?"
If our "mistakes" make plenty of money for someone that's what we learn.
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