CARP?  SWSA?

Please provide a very brief "executive summary" of the current
requirements placed on non-profit internet radio stations.

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Clarification of Question by donphiltrodt-ga on 12 Feb 2003 00:53 PST

Since I'm already aware of this...

http://www.saveinternetradio.org/90seconds.asp

...there's no need to include it your research.

http://www.soundexchange.com/

Is who you have to go through now.  Since they have been assigned with
the responsiblity of collecting from non-profit webcast radio
stations.  Their rates vary depending on the music you broadcast, the
average number of listeners, and what your horoscope says.

The whole idea of the government stopping non-commerical webcasters is
as absurd as if they were going after non-commerical users who "share"
mp3s. In fact, it is more absurd because webcasts are usually encoded
at a low bitrate <96k, and thus are a fraction of average mp3
quality-- and less than 10% of an Audio Cd's bitrate.  Furthermore,
there are almost NO programs that allow you to record web broadcasts--
as you can tape AM/FM radio (There's one, TotalRecorder, but it's a
commerical application).  Depending on the size of your radio station,
if you advertise or not, and so forth... you may want to just wait it
out.

I wrote something a lot better than this, but then it was lost when
Netscape refreshed =(

Pardon me, you do not HAVE to go through Sound Exchange.  The "Small
Webcaster Settlement Act of 2002" gives the webcaster the option of
that-- because they deal with all of the required communication
between record companies and artists, so you don't have to.
[http://www.copyright.gov/fedreg/2002/67fr78510.html]

Your other option is dealing directly with this: 
http://www.copyright.gov/carp/webcasting_rates_final.html