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Internet Radio Temporarily Avoids Rate Hikes Again

I’m seeing conflicting reports about the latest developments in the attempt to impose royalty payments on Internet radio stations. No less a mainstream media authority than the Washington Post makes it seem like the advocacy efforts failed and the new fee structure is a done deal:

“The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has refused to stop an increase in royalty and broadcasting fees, jeopardizing the future of some stations. As a result of the decision, handed down Wednesday, fee increases will take effect in two days.”

But then, a well-known but still relatively unknown blog like TinyMixTapes posts this:

“Despite many setbacks in the past months, as well as this week’s court denial of a “motion to stay” petition by webcasters, internet radio has been saved from the freakish royalty rate increases originally due to take effect this Sunday. “A commitment has been made to negotiate reasonable royalties, recognizing the industry’s long-term value and its still-developing revenue potential,” wrote SaveNetRadio on its website.”

SaveNetRadio, the coalition representing various online radio stations seems to confirm the second report:

“Congress and SoundExchange have heard loud and clear the amazing outpouring of support for Internet radio from webcasters, listeners and the thousands of artists they support. A commitment has been made to negotiate reasonable royalties, recognizing the industry’s long-term value and its still-developing revenue potential.

During negotiations SoundExchange committed temporarily not to enforce the new royalty rates so webcasters can stay online as new rates are agreed upon.

This development is due in great part to the millions of people who have let their Congressional representatives know about their support of Internet radio. Over 125 representatives have cosponsored the bill to this point. “

So it sounds like good news at this point but we’re not out of the woods either. Keep watching the blogs and sites I linked to above (especially the SaveNetRadio site) for further developments.

- JH

It’s Fair Use Day!

“We have had a big fairuse year to date. With EMI dropping DRM from their music catalog and Apple agreeing to sell it, the take down of AACS protection and its continuing battle against ‘the bad guys’, to the still ongoing debate over net neutrality. It has been a turbulent year with many small victories along the way. There is still a long way to go to ensure that our rights remain with us as the recent stories about ATT with their claims that a non-neutral net needs less bandwidth have shown. So keep copying, keep making parodies, and keep expressing your rights”.

_DJ_

Media diversity resource

Here’s a quick redirect to a Library Juice post with a couple of nice resources.

First is this guide for collecting from diverse sources.
(or: outsourcing, how not to)

Fostering Media Diversity in Libraries: Strategies and Actions.

Second there’s a link to a note on the ALA’s opposition to media concentration in the US since June 2003.

Relevant Canadian stuff from libraryland (found by searching the CLA website) is largely falling under the information literacy umbrella:

School Libraries in Canada link.
Information Literacy in Canada blog post.

-PC-

Toronto libraries and museums hook up

There’s been a lot of discussion lately in Toronto about the ROM, and not just about the opening of the controversial Libeskind designed crystal explosion on the north side (which after watching it grow and evolve through its baby to childhood to adolescent and finally adult crystal form, I am now a fan.)

The other hubbub concerns giving the public a way in while the museum bursts out of its walls. From the demise of free Fridays, and then the increase of $5 Fridays to $10 Fridays, admission prices have become less affordable. $20 for adults, $17 for students and seniors, $14(!) for children 5-14 yrs. As a student living downtown Toronto, I can assure you that I’ll be going in for the ‘free 90 minutes before closing’ deal (expanded from 60 minutes to bump up their allotment of free minutes). Like libraries, museums are civic spaces meant to inform, educate, democratize and inspire the public. So what gives?

Leah Sandals over at Spacing Wire writes in a few great pieces on both the blog and the Sunday star that discusses the museum environment, the successful plans in other cities that give free access to culture institutions, and Toronto’s plan to give away free passes through 24 selected branches at the Toronto Public Library.

TPL posted a link to the “Museum and Arts Passes” program today after officially announcing the program this morning. Twenty-four Toronto Public Library branches that fall in what the city refers to as 13 priority areas are slated to provide the passes. (It would seem that downtowners really are expected to slip in just before closing as the branches are in the burbs.) It would of course be ideal if the passes were available across the board. Or better yet, if there was a free admissions situation like the successful UK museums policy. However, it’s a good move to take a chunk out of cultural elitism by finding an audience and increasing traffic through the public library to boot.

The collaboration also includes the Art Gallery of Ontario, Bata Shoe Museum, Gardiner Museum, Royal Ontario Museum and Textile Museum of Canada. (And a corporate sponsor which I won’t mention here).

The Harper government cut significant funding to museums in the fall, but there’s not much in the media about the issue beyond a few paltry articles (see previous post) like this one that discusses how the recent influx of private funds have put cultural institutions in a tight spot in relationship to our current government. The Canadian Museums Association notes that despite targeted spending on specific projects by the feds, the MAPs cuts still need some advocacy work. No doubt this unstable funding environment makes our public institutions more susceptible to seeking sponsorship deals, and gives an entryway into our public institutions for a corporate mentality.

-PC-

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Siobhan Stevenson, faculty at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information Studies, has published a paper in First Monday entitled “Public libraries, public access computing, FOSS and CI: There are alternatives to private philanthropy“. Great read!

I had the great fortune to read her University of Western Ontario PhD thesis (The post-Fordist public library : from Carnegie to Gates) in which she lays out her critique of Gates and Carnegie-style philanthropy. Great thesis — interlibrary loan that baby if you get a chance. It’s only 125 pages long, too: good and succinct. She also has an article in the Winter 06/07 issue of Progressive Librarian entitled “Philanthropies Unexpected Consequences: public libraries and the struggle over free v. proprietary software”. Do you see the theme in her research?

Here is the abstract from her First Monday paper:

In January 2007, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) announced its second multi–year technology grant program for America’s public libraries. The purpose of Phase II, Keeping communities connected: The next step is to help public libraries sustain the public access computing infrastructure laid down during Phase I. Now, as then, the goal of the program is to bridge the digital divide. But it is a digital divide as defined by Bill Gates and not the public library community. Situating Gates’ philanthropy within a critical policy frame, this paper considers two alternatives to Gates’ problem definition of the digital divide, and how knowledge of these might benefit those communities served by public access computing (PAC) services as found in public libraries. The two specific alternatives considered come from the Free Software Foundation (FSF), and Community Informatics (CI). Significantly, both social movements promote the potential of free and open software as an important part of any solution. Finally, the public library literature is reviewed for patterns in the community’s use of FOSS, and the argument is made for its use in the delivery of PAC services.

First Monday is just super.

-SIO

Reed Elsevier backs down on arms fairs

Check out the news through Library Juice, and kudos to those who signed the petition.

-PC-

Rusty Hodge, General Manager of SomaFM discusses the issues that affect internet radio.

Probably the first time I ever listened to radio on the internet it was on SomaFM’s drone stream. I remember thinking that this was something else and it was pretty exciting. Unfortunately, this excitement is likely to be contained, as has been previously posted on LA.

So today, I went to see how Soma was doing and I came across a blog written by Rusty Hodge. I strongly urge you to check it out and see what the fuss is about through the eyes of someone directly involved with this issue. There are tons of links, and tons of information here. Enjoy, and let’s stop this garbage.

http://somafm.com/blogs/rusty/2007/04/crisis-facing-internet-radio.html

_DJ_

Audio books, a history.

Here at LA we’ve made the odd mention of the value of new and accessible audio materials, and how they support patrons needing alternatives to print materials. Shannon LaBelle, a MLIS student at SLAIS, UBC put together a fantastic presentation on the complete history of audio books in Canada.

Have a look …
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I’d like an iPod in the fetching canary yellow depicted in “an example of an audiocassette player”.

-PC

Gun Control Resources

Riffing on JH here is an extensive list of anti-gun resources from the Open Directory Project:

http://dmoz.org/Society/Issues/Gun_Control/Anti-Gun_Rights/

_DJ_

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The Brady Campaign is one of the leading US advocates working to prevent gun-related violence.

- JH