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  • noun A person or organization that transmits a webcast over the Internet.

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Examples

  • Anonymous 'past targets include uncool virtual worlds, an epilepsy message board and a Neo-Nazi webcaster.

    Wired Top Stories 2010

  • Financial Times: WIPO's webcaster treaty is a disaster

    Boing Boing: April 8, 2007 - April 14, 2007 Archives 2007

  • However, compliance is costly; 8tracks is currently seeking small webcaster status, which would let it pay a percentage of revenue rather than a per-stream fee, and trying to license content directly from copyright holders wherever possible.

    Wired Top Stories 2009

  • Also scuttling the earlier small webcaster settlement offer was a provision for payments should a small webcaster be acquired by a larger company.

    Agreement Reached on Webcasting Royalty Rates 2009

  • The site complies with webcaster licensing rules that bar users from adding more than two songs from the same artist, mentioning more than three artists in the title of a mix, mislabeling tracks and so on.

    Wired Top Stories 2009

  • Also scuttling the earlier small webcaster settlement offer was a provision for payments should a small webcaster be acquired by a larger company.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • On the non-licensed webcaster MySpace, the profile for The Fray, a popular band signed by Sony, tallies over 48 million interactive performances of their content and 0 downloads.

    Hank Risan: Art and Invention Stream Ripped Away 2008

  • SoundExchange, the recording-industry backed group that collects digital royalty rates, began meetings with a webcaster coalition led by Pandora's Westergren.

    Nancy Scola: "I Want My Internet Radio" 2008

  • Although time-shifting content is legal, webcaster representative the Digital Media Association, or DIMA, agrees with SoundExchange that it's in both organizations' best interests to stop people from stream-ripping (saving webcast songs as individual files).

    Webcasting Royalties: A Modest Proposal 2007

  • Minimize doubt about the future At least one webcaster has complained that it's hard to lure investors and partner with companies since webcasters themselves have no idea whether their businesses will still be able to operate in 2010 when the rates expire.

    Webcasting Royalties: A Modest Proposal 2007

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