[asterisk-users] Royalty for On Hold Music ?

[Steve Kennedy]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 05:22:20PM -0400, Jon Pounder wrote:

> Quoting John Millican <jmillican at sentinelcommunications.com>:
> there are plenty of radio stations with internet feeds of their audio,  
> piping that in would not change any coverage area since anyone with  
> internet could listen anywhere already, you're only providing that to  
> the listener through a phone handset instead of a computer speaker,  
> which amounts to just another audio device controlled by an internet  
> connected computer.

No it's not, you're rebroadcasting and that would incur a difference
license (if legal at all).

> What if the radio is on in the background when I make a call ? is that  
> rebroadcasting ? kind of gets blurry on the definitions there.

That's not as you're listening to it and not "trying" to rebroadcast.

Steve

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