Facing the Music: Webcasting, Interactivity, And a Sensible Statutory Royalty Scheme for Sound Recording Transmissions‪.‬

I. INTRODUCTION The Internet provides consumers with a myriad of ways to listen to and obtain music that no one ever dreamed of when Congress passed the 1976 Copyright Act. (1) Courts are now applying statutes originally drafted to handle records, audiotapes, and terrestrial radio stations to CDs, digital downloads, and online streaming audio. (2) Streaming technology alone comes in a wide array of formats, ranging from individual hobbyists creating niche musical programming (3) and official and unofficial YouTube playlists (4) to subscription jukebox services like Rhapsody (5) and create-your-own station websites like Pandora (6) and Yahoo!'s now-defunct LAUNCHcast service. (7) Congress has been trying to keep up by adapting copyright protections for sound recordings as technology advances, but it has not been a smooth process. (8)