On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:22:20 +0200, andrel wrote:

>> No, I believe this is legal, as long as the shoutcast stream is also
>> legal.  For example, if you run the server in your house, and you
>> legally own all the tracks, then how you listen to them is up to you.
> 
> I think the idea was playing a shoutcast for a group. That is
> broadcasting and even if the shoutcast/radio has paid you are obliged to
> pay *again*. We had on apartment buildings large antennae that would
> distribute the radio and television to the apartments, in stead of
> having an antenna for every apartment. That turned the owner(s) of the
> apartment building into a broadcasting organisation that had to pay
> copyright. The law may be different in the US (or here in the 21st
> century)

I think that is a little different than the proposed arrangement, though 
- the proposed arrangement would be no different than tuning in a local 
radio station or putting a bunch of CDs in a multi-disc changer to listen 
to during the party.

Jim

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