on wed NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER at NUMBER NUMBER bitbitch URL wrote this kiddies was apparently the legislative beginnings of the whole streaming audio gets spanked by fees ruling that came down in the earlier parts of this year this first act applied to non exempt non subscription transmission services when congress got around in NUMBER and realized that webcasting services might be different though i honestly can t see how they wrote in the provision through the dmca to include such transmissions the restrictive law regarding audio is actually the accumulated cruft of NUMBER years of various legislative acts the totality of what we have now come from various parts of all the following re sound recordings NUMBER dmca NUMBER digital performance right in sound recordings act NUMBER audio home recording act NUMBER copyright act amendment NUMBER copyright act amendment it is worth noting that many people have forgotten about the NUMBER copyright act amendment which created the foundational law stating that the copyright owners have the right to limit personal use of audio recordings after first sale even if you are not making copies in any commercial sense sound recordings for many intents and purposes are explicitly excluded from fair use by the NUMBER amendment james rogers jamesr URL 