 subject re digital radio playlists are prohibited from james rogers jamesr best com to fork URL date NUMBER sep NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER on wed NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER at NUMBER NUMBER rohit khare wrote anyone heard of this law before absolutely more accurately it is part of the riaas regulation for broadcasting music under their auspices this is actually part of the default statutory license the riaa is compelled to issue you can try and establish your own contract with each of the individual publishers in addition to the writers but that is a herculean undertaking in its own right the details are really gross and complicated perhaps the stations cannot publish digital playlists but you can get them from URL anyway they use some sort of listening and recognition technology to identify the music played on over NUMBER us radio stations jeff 