I believe media players on a website would be considered a public performance, so:
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in the case of a published sound recording the performer and the maker of the recording have a right to payment of "equitable remuneration" for its performance in public or its communication to the public by telecommunication;
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http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_mrksv/c...protect-e.html
I know MySpace and Facebook have been called on issues like this. Some bands have made agreements to allow their performances to be played in the embedded players, other music has been released under the Creative Commons license. I'm not sure what other things have been put in place.
I get a lot of my copyright info from http://www.michaelgeist.ca/index.php
He discussed this in April of last year, and at that time is sounded like new fee structures were still up for debate.
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/1863/159/
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The net effect of these tariffs and licenses is that webcasting in Canada can get expensive, particularly for non-commercial and niche webcasters. By wisely focusing on a percentage of revenue model rather than the U.S. per-stream approach, the Canadian framework may enable webcasters to get off the ground, yet a streamlined system for streaming will be needed before Canada develops into a genuine Internet radio haven.
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