05.10.11
Work with his latest startup, DAR.fm . He just received a refrain from ceaselessly and desist letter from Univision (embedded below) for making it plausible to record 26 of its radio stations.
Dar.fm, which stands for Digital Audio Recorder), allows consumers to souvenir Internet radio streams and listen to them later. “It’s a TiVo for boom box,” argues Robertson. There are 16,000 radio shows from 5,000 rare AM and FM radio stations listed on DAR.fm—everything from NPR’s Fresh Air to Shake a leg Limbaugh. Users can find radio shows on DAR.fm and record them for later playback.
But isn’t that the same as rebroadcasting copyrighted satisfaction? Contacted for comment, Robertson writes in an email: “We don’t put faith people recording broadcasts is a copyright infringement—even if done via a cloud appointment… . It is not rebroadcasting just like your VCR is not rebroadcasting. It is individual recording. Courts have consistently ruled that personal recording of broadcasts is not a copyright violation and does not require a license. This is why consumers can have and use a Tivo/DVR. DAR.fm is barely the identical service for radio.”
Source: TechCrunch