you mean http://blogs.suntimes.com/derogatis/2009/03/mr_corgan_goes_to_washington.html
Yes radio has to pay royalties on tracks here in the UK and it sucks - one of the suggestions a way back was to make podcasts similarly accountable, I looked into it - it's not so much the cost but the paperwork - you can see why people become pirates when you have to report every song you play in one excel spreadsheet - a song per page...and all the other details (label, cat # etc) - it's a nightmare.
It's why only the BBC has good shows, they have a blanket royalty agreement so can play anything.
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Date: 2009-03-10 01:06 am (UTC)Yes radio has to pay royalties on tracks here in the UK and it sucks - one of the suggestions a way back was to make podcasts similarly accountable, I looked into it - it's not so much the cost but the paperwork - you can see why people become pirates when you have to report every song you play in one excel spreadsheet - a song per page...and all the other details (label, cat # etc) - it's a nightmare.
It's why only the BBC has good shows, they have a blanket royalty agreement so can play anything.