Buma/Stemra wants money for links to radio streams

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Buma/Stemra wants the website.fm, which links to radio streams offering, now royalties are going to pay. Although the site is not to embed to do, is link, in this case, according to the collecting society on the same.

Buma/Stemra carries that on in proceedings on the merits against the Netherlands.fm, the sister site of.fm, same owner. The netherlands.fm does in contrast to.fm, however, to embedding, and it has already been known that Buma/Stemra wants money from commercial sites that, for example, radio streams embed. That Buma/Stemra, however, wants money for linking to streams is new. Jim Souren the two sites, calls it ‘ridiculous’. “The radio stations are benefit that there is a link, because they have more listeners,” said Souren. “And Buma/Stemra.” Buma/Stemra will also all royalties from the radio stations.

According to spokesman Bas Erlings of Buma/Stemra does.fm is actually the same as the Netherlands.fm, even though there is no mention of embedding. “The technique is different, but there is money earned with other people’s music,” says Erlings, referring to the ads on On.fm. According to Erlings is it not so that for every link to copyrighted music money must be paid. “We wanted this specific case, the court let keys, now there is yet proceedings on the merits.”

Souren says that it looks like Buma/Stemra feel that the pop-ups on On.fm of the site itself, ” but that is not so. He says.fm started as an ‘experiment’, but the Netherlands.fm would be ‘much better’ than the new site. In The Netherlands.fm the user remains on the site itself if he radio streams click.

In 2011, ving Buma/Stemra still bone in a summary proceedings against the Netherlands.fm; the organization was inadmissible. As a result, the case hardly any content is dealt with and the court has not spoken on the question or for embedding must be paid. Then pitched the Buma/Stemra proceedings on the merits, on the 26th of July.

In 2009, caused by Buma/Stemra is still much controversy when it called for levies on the embedding of audio content, also in YouTube streams. As a result of the fuss saw the collecting society to a great extent on these plans, but the embedding of radio streams, according to the organization still be reimbursed.