Licensing Fees Paid By Webcasters To Record Company

Licensing Fees Paid By Webcasters To Record Company

Licensing fees paid by webcasters to record companies [digital millennium copyright act]. Do they also pay fee to the owners of the copyright material (i.e. singer) ?

Webcasting generally refers to the distribution of an audio or video file over the Internet using streaming media technology (i.e. blog). Under the United States copyright law the owner of a copyrighted work has exclusive right to make copies of the work. Thus the webcaster pays fees in order to (i) reproduce, (ii)distribute and (iii) perform the work publicly to the record company.

If the material available online infringe's someone's copyright, the copyright holder asserts copyright by submitting infringement to the blog owner.

If the online activity or material is infringing under the local country law or United States law (digital millennium copyright law) the blog company has the ability to remove or disable access to the infringing material or activity. 

What would be the case, of an online material or activity that infringes someone's copyright and this person is not aware of the webcaster's actions. In other words, the webcaster is taking advantage of a person's work without paying fees to the actual owner of the copyrights!

Shouldn't the blog company be responsible to ensure that the copyright holders are all informed of the webcaster's actions???

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