If you are beginning to compile content remember that RHZ does
NOT play regularly copyrighted work.
Records, cassettes, CD's, and other music recordings come under
a general category called Sound Recordings or Phonorecords. Before
1972, sound recordings were not protected by copyright law, but
by a hodge-podge tangle of state laws. This problem was fixed
with the 1972 copyright act and extended by the 1998 twenty year
copyright extension. Different copyright experts have offered
very different complicated explanations, but all agree that ALL
sound recordings not explicitly placed in the public domain essentially
are under copyright protection until the year 2067.
If regularly copyrighted work goes out on the network, then every
broadcaster is liable to potential royalty payments or legal action
for infringing on the rights of the author. Everything submitted
to RHZ Radio must be under a Creative
Commons license or in the public domain. For more information
go to creativecommons.org.
What does all this mean? MAKE IT YOURSELF, DON'T USE OTHER PEOPLE'S
WORK WITHOUT PERMISSION, and LICENSE IT AS FREE TO SHARE. Copyrighted
music gets all the attention anyway…why not create something
new?
