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For downloading, he should pay as much as a radio listener pays: nothing.

For distributing, he should pay the same fees that radio stations pay.

For distributing, he should pay the same fees that radio stations pay.

In other words, they should pay him!, preferably through a shell corporation.

Actually radio stations pay licenses for rights to songs for satellite/internet radio, while music is sent to radio stations for free through promoters.

I work at a small college radio station (http://kmnr.org) we have been working with SoundExchange to get licensing for internet broadcast in addition to our radio broadcast.

You might want to double check that. Labels may send your station free CDs, but if you broadcast them, you should be paying ASCAP/BMI fees based on how many songs you play.

I thought about that a bit more and talked to our music director and I think you are right.

So if I sell burned copies of a new CD on the street corner, I should only have to pay a radio license fee?

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