Web radio faces dead air: debate rages over how much Webcasters should pay artists and labels for the right to play their music

0 Comments | Insight on the News, May 20, 2002 | by William Glanz

Rose has written Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, to push his plan for the five-year moratorium. He is part of a massive campaign spearheaded by Webcasters and their advocates to write members of Congress and complain about the royalty proposal.

"They have been awakened to this threat," one supporter says. In fact no issue has rallied the young, fractured Webcasting industry like the royalty dispute, and Webcasters are making their voices heard now out of concern that the proposed federal regulation will silence them later.

WILLIAM GLANZ WRITES FOR Insight'S SISTER DAILY, THE WASHINGTON TIMES.