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Topic History of: Internet Radio.. Is it legal?
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david	There are many ways to "do radio". You can go "over the airwaves" and rent airtime over European mediumwave and shortwave transmitter stations. KREBS TV in Latvia will rent you airtime on their 100 KW 31 metre band shortwave transmitter for under EU 60 per hour. Or you could set up a clandestine pirate radio station on AM or FM and broadcast into London and the south east of the UK from abandoned woods and fields around Surrey or from Tower blocks (if you're on FM) from the inner city. Sunday afternoons has been a popular time to hit the airwaves. Or you could set up an internet music station over Live 365 or SoundClick and reach an international audience that way. Actually it's not that difficult and not that costly to do any of these means of broadcasting. SoundClick is free and can be quite good ,, take my advise and listen to the Beautiful Music service of Radio Seaspray www.radioseaspray.com and follow the links. SoundClick has a lot of different music - some good, some great and some questionable. If you're into pop search the Euro section or the electronica section .. There are other ways to do Internet Radio .. search the internet and you will find more answers. David
andrew	It is legal. Sign up to www.live365.com Rolling Stones sponsor it. There are millions of radio stations, setting up takes alot of time and and fair bit of money and your computer has to be 100% clean you must have nothing on it.
web dj	Thanks for the feedback but would there need to be a license for being on the 'airwaves' so to speak? I know you can't just set up an FM radio station that plays unsigned artists without some kind of permit, does this apply to the internet once you have one regular listener? I had tried the PPL before this... Very slow at responding and I seem to be getting passed from person to person.
Kev	The last time I looked at Soundclick either the content was extremely poor or a cover (also very poor!).
david	Officially you're more or less right - If an artist/songwriter has assigned their works to PRS/PPL or simular Performing Right/MEchanical Right society then you have to obtain licenses if you wish to broadcast music over the internet. If a songwriter/artist has not assigned rights to their music to one of these societies then they can license directly to you to use their repertoire free of charge. Radio Six is an example of this method Radio Six International www.radiosix.com/ Another approach is to set up a station over an already existing library of works and operate you station this way. www.soundclick.com www.radioseaspray.com I strongly reccomend using SoundClick because it costs you nothing and you have a very extensive and varied library of music works to choose between for your station and all the material has been cleared for use. David