Re: Clear Channel ends streaming broadcasts ... please explain

[Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>]

<<On Sat, 04 Jan 2003 21:12:36 -0500, "Aaron 'Bishop' Read" <aread@speakeasy.net> said:

> Not exactly, Garrett...in light of ASCAP and BMI finally "caving in"

ASCAP and BMI are ultimately service organizations: they collect
royalties on behalf of the songwriters and composers who are their
members.[1]  They are not subject to the same sorts of business pressures
as the major record labels are.  Remember, it's the record labels, and
not the songwriters, who own the copyrights at issue here, and I don't
see any sign of RIAA seeing sense in the near future.

-GAWollman

[1] This is particularly true of ASCAP which is governed by its
members.