[Fmpro] Global???

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6430489.stm

 From the above

 >>>Last.fm, an interactive music service based in London that has 15  
million users worldwide, is also worried by the American ruling.
The founders of the service say that internet radio is only one part  
of what it offers but they are concerned by what is happening in the US.

"The US is one of our strongest markets," says Martin Stiksel of  
Last.fm.

"We are competing with unlicensed services and this makes it almost  
commercially unworkable. Users are being driven away from licenced  
services that are trying to do the right thing."

Anyone who streams music over the internet has to pay a licence fee,  
whether they are standard broadcast radio stations putting their  
content online, or new internet start-ups.

In the UK, the fees are administered by a music industry organisation  
called Phonographic Performance Ltd (PPL).

A spokesman for PPL said the fees paid by internet radio stations in  
the UK were currently under negotiation but the likely result was  
that they would end up paying more. <<



If music via US composers is used on this site......... how will US  
composers be paid by PPL?



How do UK composers know what US end users actually received?

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