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Afraid so.....
| quote: | Because of legal reasons we have to shut down Rise FM very soon. We have
just been notified by the organisation who handles the musical rights here
in denmark that we since the 1st of january 2005 have been more or less
breaking the law because of some minor changes in some paragraphs that we
didn't know sh*t about.
In short, they changed the law a tiny bit and now we're breaking it!
We have less than a week to come up with $3500 (which will secure us for 3
months ahead) if we want to continue streaming and to be honest.... that's
an impossible task for us because we don't have any investors or big
commercial income.
We're not big fans of commercials but this may be the only way to survive in
these tough days unless someone with alot of money can see the potential in
Rise FM and would like to "sponsor" the station. But most investors would
like to get something back in the long run and the only way to generate
income would be by selling commercial spots (which is very hard especially
on internet radio stations!) and banner ads.
Until now, all expenses on Rise FM (bandwidth, equipment, music, workhours)
have been paid right out of our pockets with the help of a few donations and
2 very helpfull bandwidth sponsors. But an extra $3500 is just too much for
us to handle.
To our luck we have a few small "tricks" we could use. These includes
playing only unsigned royalty-free tracks. All we need is a document signed
by the composer/artist stating that he owns ALL the rights to the track and
that Rise FM can freely play that track as a royalty-free track. But this is
not a very good long-term solution since it would be to more or less screw
the artist... they deserve to get paid, but when the authorities play such
ugly games, so can we. We would seriously consider having a 5-track
royalty-free playlist on rotation 24/7 if that's all we had.... just to
"tease" the authorities.
Right now we're planning our response to their demands and trust us when we
say we will do all we can to keep Rise FM alive. But those $3500 is simply
too much.
Unless something more unexpected should happen, we will shut down the stream
this sunday and get things settled with the danish authorities before we
damage ourselves anymore. The website will continue to run and will probably
be begging visitors to make a donation so that we might be able to reach the
$3500... then Rise FM can be streaming for the next 3 months, but then we
still would need to have people donate more than $1000 each month to
continue streaming which is not very realistic.
As you might have guessed, we're still in a state of chock and our brains
are working on all the pumps to figure out how to keep the station running.
Right now we have a big hurdle to jump, but with alot of hard work and a
great bit of luck we're sure that Rise FM will not be gone forever. But we
need help!!!!
If you should know anyone who might be able to help us in any way, please
don't hesitate. We need all the help we can get right now!
We will continue to provide you with updated information regarding the state
of Rise FM. The stream will stop sunday night but be sure it will return
again... but we can't say when yet. It depends on the next weeks "fight"
with the authorities.
We're very sorry that the shutdown comes with such a short notice but to be
honest, we didn't know anything about it until 3 hours ago when we opened
todays mail. Feel free to drop us a line if you have ay questions or
comments and we'll try to provide you with any information you might need.
Thanks goes out to all dj's, producers, labels, sponsors, listeners,
donators and everybody else who have helped us make Rise FM what it is
today... we didn't get this big without the help from you guys.
Take care and hope to be emailing you with some better news soon.
Kind Regards,
Rolf Arnesen
Station Manager/DJ
Rise FM
www.risefm.com
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