Meanwhile, college webcasting continues to hang in the balance.
See CNN’s: Net radio fees threaten college webcasts –
New royalty rates too steep for most school stations

For college stations and other nonprofit webcasters, the fees work out to two cents per listener per 100 songs, plus an 8.8 percent surcharge to cover temporary copies of music needed for streaming.
So a station playing 12 songs an hour around the clock would owe $23 per listener each year. Averaging 21 simultaneous listeners keeps the station at the $500 annual minimum. Beyond that, the station has to pay extra.

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http://europe.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/08/28/college.webcasting.ap/index.html
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