[LAU] GEMA - Was: Radium Compressor V0.0.1

On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 22:31:06 +0100, Robin Gloster <robin(a)loc-com.de> wrote: Danke für die Bestätigung Robin, I guess it's to risky to make Internet radio with GEMA music. We once made Bürgerfunk. Since I was a known audio engineer here and I was payed to do audio engineering for other people making Bürgerfunk, we had some privileges other people did not have. However, all people making Bürgerfunk don't need to take care about the GEMA. We still could do Bürgerfunk and get money from the LfR, but I was thinking of making Internet radio, because we won't get money, but reach as much people as possible, who are interested in Rock music that isn't mainstream, but also not to unknown. We fall into euphoria when thinking about the possibility to make radio for the Internet, so I didn't thought about the GEMA. Some days later I was thinking of the GEMA and the friend was disappointed, still doesn't believe that the GEMA is an issue. The friends ezine, http://www.cosmiclava.com was established in 1999, so he now has many friends among the artists, you'll find the logo of the ezine on concert announcement posters of famous bands. But AFAIK agreements of the bands to play their music isn't valid, because they make a deal with the GEMA. The only thing we could do is to play GEMA free music, but I suspect that even a lot of 80s DIY European Punk Rock isn't free anymore. I wonder what would happen if we would play GEMA free records from the past, that today might be new released with GEMA. I don't know if there are records where this happened, but this might be a risk too. Btw. we won't get money, but we can't pay money to pay the GEMA and even if I could pay the GEMA, I will not do it. I never had to deal with the GEMA myself. I was working for audio and video production and audio gear development and manufacturing and even when I was payed as employee for Bürgefunk, I didn't work in the office, but maintained the audio equipment and helped to record radio program. So your experiences are bad and you and I we guess, we don't know, but this uncertainty, the need to ask a lawyer, for me is to risky. Regards, Ralf -- PS: linuxaudio.org often isn't reachable at the moment, at least the user list isn't available PPS: The binary Linux packages have got a big advantage compared to FreeBSD ports, I'm updating a FreeBSD install and the machine does compile for more than 24 hours now, it's still in progress.