Radio

I would like to start a weekly radio show on my college’s internet radio station with old recordings of the Mercury Theater shows. Does anyone know if that would violate copyright laws (or other applicable law relating to radio broadcast)?

Thanks for your help!

Several issues to slice at: whether you need a copyright license for non-profit use in an educational institution, whether it would be a different answer if the "channel" were only accessible to students at the college, whether the original works are copyrighted, and (if so) when do they expire.

The US Copyright law grants a limited exemption for certain educational uses. Read 17 USC s. 110 to see if your proposed use falls under one of them. If not, you may be able to obtain an inexpensive license from the copyright owners (typically the producers and their successor owners).

The Mercury Theater recordings were originally recorded prior to 1973, so they are not covered by any federal copyright. However, state laws prohibit unauthorized publication of sound recordings, so could still find yourself sued for copyright infringement in, say, Massachusetts. They would have to prove, among other things, that you "copied" the recording "without consent" and for the purpose of "profit" from a public performance, or to "sell, rent or transport" any unauthorized copy.

Under many state copyright laws, the copyright NEVER expires. These laws will remain in effect until they are preempted by the federal copyright law in 2067, making all such works "public domain", i.e., no longer covered by any copyright in the USA.

So I’ve noticed that some radio stations tend to speed up their songs and make them higher pitched. like some radio stations speed them up by 3, 4, 5%. some even speed it up by 6 or 7%. i mean, i don’t have a problem with it but i was just wondering why.

do any of your local radio stations do that?

that’s dumb. and probay just to fit in more songs in a time slot, or so people find the tune more catchy

I would like to host a internet radio programme, without starting my own station.

Use 1000MIKES – Radio 2.0.. to start you off and tell your friends to listen or post it on facebook or twitter. Don’t use illegal music because they can end up blocking you. Its quick and easy to set up and you can see how many people are listening to you at the time. hope that helped

I get very bad reception in a small house in France surrounded by hills. So if I buy an ‘internet radio’ of which many are now on sale, what wires, electricity supply, aerial(?) do I need and where do I have to be in relation to the p.c. on the ground floor ????? Any help appreciated. I know I can get reception on the p.c. but I want to listen upstairs.

You could try internet tuners by Grace, Sangean, Coby, Aluratek, etc. I have an Aluratek AIREC01F that I like for the most part. I use it wirelessly with a wireless router connected to my modem. Believe me, internet streams sound better through a decent stereo system than computer speakers.

By internet radio, I mean stations that are exclusivly available online, like VH1 radio. And yes, I’ve heard of Pandora, the make-your-own radio station sort of thing.

No real careers yet. Maybe in 10 years.

I need to travel to Vilnius, but I don’t have a portable radio. Because the entire bus will probably be filled with hopeless nerds/engineers, I want to listen to radio, when we travel. But my phone doesn’t have an FM Receiver.

The thing is, the radio is lithuanian, and those, which broadcast through the Internet, don’t stream that station.

Any way to listen to FM radio on a Sony Ericsson S500i?

No. Try a Walkman. They’re dirt cheap.

tell me top 3 best famous english live internet radio in america and top 3 best famous english live internet radio in the world. I could find only RNW radio and fox news radio that is english and live streaming all day and not low quality sound.

UK’s BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/

USA- NPR

http://www.npr.org/

If the energy provided from the radio waves in a crystal radio isnt enough to overcome the forward voltage drop of the diode being used, then how can a crystal radio even work?
Energy picked up by crystal radios is in the microwatt and nanowatt range, so how can the crystal radio work if the diode it used needs at least 0.3 volts to work? (Overcome forward voltage drop)

You use a very long antenna (+100 ft) to collect enough radio energy to allow operation.

And close proximity to the radio transmitter

My dad rides around in a mail truck all day and it doesn’t have a radio. He said for fathers day he wanted sirius radio and I don’t know which one to get. He was talking about a dock for it and the one I found on Amazon looks like it hooks into a pre-existing radio.

If anyone has any idea what radio I need to get, PLEASE point me in the right direction!
I can’t figure out how to respond, lmao, but they are allowed to have one. He asked for one specifically.

I don’t think they are allowed to have one.

For Fathers Day, have you considered creating a list of why you appreciate him? Answer this survey on that.
http://divpat.org/AppreciationOfDadList

I’m not talking about AM radio or FM radio signals, but the radio station booths.
My friend told me that AM station booths are shaped irregularly to stop sound waves from bouncing around the room and causing feedback. I forgot what he said about FM.
Is this true?

They don’t.