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INDIE NEWS BEAT
June 29, 2004 Edition
* BuzzPlant Adds Digital Rights Management Services
* New Senate Bill Threatens Betamax Protection
* IndieRadioLive.com For The Good Of Music
* Coalition Calls For Radio Industry Changes
* Pillar's Almost 19,000 Units In First Week
* The Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act
* Coast Sound Radio Launches To Rave Revues
* Electronic Music Community Unites To Redefeat Bush
* More To Promoting Music Then The Internet
* Senator Dorgan On Concentration Of Broadcast Ownership
* Protest Of A Music Ban On Hip Hop And Foreign Music

BuzzPlant Adds Digital Rights Management Services

Acclaimed Internet marketing company, BuzzPlant has added Digital Rights Management to its long list of client services. By utilizing Microsoft's Windows Media DRM, BuzzPlant can encode timed-out downloads or limited play functionality to music. What this means, is that record labels and artists can now release full versions of songs online, and still retain complete control of how many times the song is played or how long a person can have it on their computer.

INO Records and Flicker Records are already using the technology with some of their new releases. Buzzplant can also capture important demographic data on people listening to the songs as well.

Additionally, BuzzPlant has added 2 more web designers to their team to enhance their web development offerings. Recent sites include www.charliepeacock.com, www.bobbyjonesthemovie.com, www.redeemthevote.net .

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New Senate Bill Threatens Betamax Protection

The Home Recording Rights Coalition today expressed deep concern over a new Senate bill, the "Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act of 2004," that would impose copyright liability for any person for any activity "intentionally inducing" copyright infringement. HRRC called for a full hearing on the legislation.

HRRC said that the proposed bill, though not overtly aimed at devices and software, could be interpreted as giving copyright owners a veto over the introduction of almost any new technology for home and personal use, and thus effectively eviscerate the fundamental public policies and essential safeguards for technology developers that formed the basis of the Supreme Court's landmark 1984 Betamax ruling.

"We understand that this bill is aimed by its sponsors at multi-purpose on-line services, and how they might be abused. But it also covers all multi-purpose devices, software, and home networking products," said HRRC Chairman Gary Shapiro. "Every time entrepreneurs launch a new hardware, software, or home network product, this bill would seem to subject them to a jury trial about what they had in mind. This would chill the introduction of new technology and new products across a wide range of media. It merits full and careful consideration of all of its potential consequences."

In 1976, motion picture studios filed for a court injunction against the marketing of the first consumer VCR, or "video tape recorder." When the case reached the Supreme Court, the Court observed: "The request for an injunction ... indicates that [the studios] seek, in effect, to declare VTR's contraband." The Court refused to ban VCRs according to their use or terms of sale, observing: "It seems extraordinary to suggest that the Copyright Act confers upon all copyright owners collectively, much less the two [studios] in this case, the exclusive right to distribute VTR's simply because they may be used to infringe copyrights. That, however, is the logical implication of their claim."

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IndieRadioLive.com For The Good Of Music

Music is known to us all, even to those still in the womb. The first sound we ever hear is the strong and steady beat of Mom's heart. The quiet base sound of "bum-bum" "bum-bum" was so precious that we could not survive without its comforting sound. Where would our unborn little souls be if not for Mom's constant, pulsating music pumping into our veins? Mindless, compassionless, emotionless, and not to mention Rhythmless. Those qualities, unfortunantly ARE in the souls of people in the world today.

That is why Indie Radio Live has searched the earth for the o