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Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel (CARP)-- copyright fees sent by the Librarian of Congress and Copyright Office are prohibitive.

On February 20, 2002, however, the CARP arbitrators issued their recommendation - .14¢ per song per listener (that's $.0014) for Internet-only webcasters, .07¢ per song per listener ($.0007) for broadcast radio simulcasts, and .02¢ per song per listener($.0002) for non-commercial radio simulcasts.

While CARP's proposed royalty rate might be manageable for Internet radio properties owned by multi-billion-dollar corporations like AOL, Yahoo!, and Microsoft, it seems as if it will effectively bankrupt the vast majority of Webcasters.

This was later leveled to .07¢ per song per listener for everybody.

http://www.2step-garage.co.uk/competitions/garage_competitions.htm

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