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Aetheric

1:31 PM on 9 July, 2009

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Gordon, the annual minimum royalty rate is apparently $25,000.

Also, there seems to be a question of whether radio stations who only play music not covered by the RIAA (as in, music for which they have made deals with the copyright holders directly, not licensed from the four big labels) will also have to pay this charge.

All this worries me greatly, to be honest. It seems that every avenue for people to sample music freely is being shut down or restricted out of greed. So if anyone has any links to music that is free and legally available online, directly from the artists, I would be most interested.

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