Webcasting is one of the biggest growth areas for music online. It generally refers to the streaming of audio on the Internet, such as with Internet radio. As available user bandwidth increases, more and more major entertainment websites are streaming audio and creating genre based, commercial-free programming.
Passage of the Digital Performance Right in Sound Recordings Act (DPRA) of 1995 enabled copyright holders to retain the right to control certain digital performances of their sound recordings (the song as it’s recorded) and to receive a royalty when their songs are used.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998 provided for, among other things, a statutory license that would grant webcasters the automatic right to use sound recordings in their streamed programming.
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