REQUIRED Webcasting Reports

As detailed here, proposed new regulations would webcasting stations to submit monthly reports about each song webcast on a 24/7/365 basis.  This is a dramatic shift from the current requirements to submit reports for two-seven day periods each calendar quarter.  This is known as Census reporting.  In addition, these reports would be required to be submitted within 45 days after the end of each month.

As if that weren’t enough, the proposed regulations would also require that webcasters report count each and every connection to each and every song, regardless of length.  This is known as Actual Total Performances (“ATP”).   As detailed in the referenced link above, CBI and a number of college and High School stations staffed by students filed comments protesting the proposed regulations.  In response, the Copyright Royalty Judges (“CRJs”) issued a Notice of Inquiry, which asked a number of questions.

In order to help the CRJs understand how these proposed changes will impact your station, CBI is developing a survey to gather information from all educational, even if they are not currently webcasting.  The survey should be released by the end of the week and a link will be posted to the site, to the CBI email lists and sent via email to stations across the nation.  CBI knows that this is a very busy time of year, so we have kept the survey as short as possible in order to gather as many responses as possible.  If you do not receive email by the end of the week with a link to the survey, please come back to the site for the link!