ARLA/CLUSTER: TuneIn retira um numero significativo de estações de radio da plataforma da Internet por razoes de licenciamento.

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

International radio stations now restricted on TuneIn

Radio Today report that TuneIn has removed access for UK listeners to
the majority of radio stations based outside the country due to
licensing reasons.

The move follows a High Court battle against TuneIn from Sony and
Warner, who say TuneIn was liable for both direct and authorising
infringement in connection to all but the UK-based stations contained
in its app.

TuneIn argued it was simply connecting users to streams owned by radio
stations, and acted as simply a search engine for radio, just
‘communicating the music contained in each radio station’s stream to
the public’.

The judge didn’t accept TuneIn’s argument that it was just a search
engine, similar to Google, saying users can do so much more than
search, such as browse music by genre and artist.

And whilst the ruling was made last November, the changes are only
just being made, with users complaining on social media that they can
no longer listen to stations from outside the UK.

TuneIn Support is responding by saying: “Due to a court ruling in the
United Kingdom, we will be restricting international stations to
prohibit their availability in the UK, with limited exceptions. We
apologize for the inconvenience..”

A spokesperson for Sony Music commented that TuneIn is “unlawfully
redistributing and commercialising links to unlicensed music on a
widespread scale.”

https://radiotoday.co.uk/2020/09/international-radio-stations-now-restricted-on-tunein/