Once again, the Copyright Royalty Tribunal is up to no good again with another deadline approaching in the negotiations over copyright royalties for music played on Internet radio stations. This impacts on our own BBM Radio/Live 365 arrangement.
I have spent the last week researching taking BBM Radio offshore if this happens and have an arrangement to re-launch the station on a server in Johannesburg, South Africa, Kiev, Ukraine, or Victoria, BC Canada, outside of the reach of the greedy US royalty people. I am not sure which of these we'd exactly end up on yet, but I do have a plan to keep us going if any plugs get pulled in the USA on Live 365. We'd then pay royalties under one of the other three countries' royalty agreements.