If you want to help - now is the time and this is how.

 This message/email came from Marvin - the heart and soul behind Stream Licensing (how we now pay royalties). Please read through it and help in any way you can. Without a change (as he states) the fees we are paying now will go up to commercial level and there is no way we can afford that. So if there has ever been a time to stand up for small and microbroadcasters now is that time.

Call to Action Newsletter # 1 
Please act to help reduce your fee.

(This email is sent to all who were Affiliates as of a few days ago.) The first step in moving forward to regain reduced fees by bringing back the Small Webcasters Agreement is here and the time has arrived. While my attorneys continue to work behind the scenes, we webcasters and providers need to unite and start building momentum. This first phase is primarily to get behind a unified group pushing for success and begin telling our story to all who will listen and especially to those who can ultimately influence the outcome.

Four initial steps:
1) I encourage you to send this email to your stream host providers, to other webcasters, anyone else you think of that would get involved.

2) Sign up yourself and encourage your listeners to sign up at http://www.radiodiversity.org/ I may not always promote this website, John Draper, here at StreamLicensing, has a beta version that has been ready for months. However, at this time I think it is wiser to unite with this already recognized group. If as time moves forward we need to use our own website and action page I'll let you know. So I'm encouraging you to move as many as possible to sign up at http://www.radiodiversity.org/ At least one Affiliate also has a good call-to-action website that I maybe sharing in the future.

3) If you haven't already please read the following two articles for more background information. Once you have digested them, please share them with as many as you possibly can: As you know, legislative action is where it will have to go ultimately. http://www.radioworld.com/…/crb-ruling-is-%E2%80%9Cc…/277856 and the second article:http://rainnews.com/small-webcasters-enter-the-unknown-of-…/ As you read, please note that StreamLicensing fees are not being presently based on the CRB/SoundExchange commercial rate. However, if we don't bring back the Small Webcasters Agreement before the end of the year, our fees will have to increase to the commercial level as shown in these articles. 

4)Putting link to the pages referenced in 2 and 3, above on your websites would be a great help as you promote bringing back the Small Webcasters Fee structure.

​We' small broadcaster have been hit with two major increases; ASCAP and CRB/SoundExchange.  We can't do much about ASCAP other than pay it, but we  have the opportunity to bring rates back at least partially to affordable levels.  We can do this as we unite and work what is ultimately going to be a legislative process to regain affordable performance fees as administered by SoundExchange.  I won't be able to reply individually to your responses to this email but I want to thank you all for all you are doing to help small webcasters have a continued future.
Marvin