Comments on: Reporting Whole Classical Pieces http://soundexchange.digitalservices.npr.org/2009/08/reporting-whole-classical-pieces/ Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:02:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sarah Bryan Miller http://soundexchange.digitalservices.npr.org/2009/08/reporting-whole-classical-pieces/comment-page-1/#comment-322 Sarah Bryan Miller Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:40:29 +0000 http://blog.publicinteractive.com/soundexchange/?p=180#comment-322 Okay, this is a total horror. Whom would I contact to do a story on it? Since, as I am informed, "...it's illegal for radio stations to stream more than three consecutive tracks from any given CD (or artist) on the internet within a 3 hour period, including classical CDs (Naxos recordings excepted). That's the performance compliment of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act - which was recently interpreted by SoundExchange to mean *separate tracks* as opposed to *pieces*..." and since classical music does NOT work in the same ADHD manner that pop does, how do we keep these SoundExchange people (whoever and whatever they may be) from destroying classical music broadcasting completely? Do they have any idea of what is at stake? Do they care? Thanks. Sarah Bryan Miller Classical Music Critic St. Louis Post-Dispatch Okay, this is a total horror. Whom would I contact to do a story on it?

Since, as I am informed, “…it’s illegal for radio stations to stream more than three consecutive tracks from any given CD (or artist) on the internet within a 3 hour period, including classical CDs (Naxos recordings excepted). That’s the performance compliment of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act – which was recently interpreted by SoundExchange to mean *separate tracks* as opposed to *pieces*…” and since classical music does NOT work in the same ADHD manner that pop does, how do we keep these SoundExchange people (whoever and whatever they may be) from destroying classical music broadcasting completely? Do they have any idea of what is at stake? Do they care?

Thanks.

Sarah Bryan Miller
Classical Music Critic
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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