From another Forum...
If I broadcast or stream material that is public domain in my country (I can do whatever I want with public domain material), can someone in another country legally listen in, even if the material might be copyrighted in that country? Am I breaking any copyright laws in that other country? Is the listener? I have no footprint in any other country than my own.
I know that the Grace music provider, as an example, checked your IP before allowing you to stream, presumably for copyright licensing purposes. What they did about VPN's I have no idea.
I know that some videos that are embedded in web pages are not available for streaming elsewhere. I get messages all the time. Again, I guess they do IP checking.
I also know that the licensing bodies are going after the Kodi (a media streamer) plug-in respositories, which contain software that allows you to play material that might be copyrighted. However, the offshore sources that contain that material still remain - they're only going after those that have a footprint in their country (the U.S. and the U.K. are the most aggressive).
I think it's impossible for a listener to be breaking a law unless you live in a totalitarian state.
As for the legality of your broadcast being heard in the US for example when their music licensing rules may be different I guess it would depend on whether the licensing company operates in both countries.
Just an opinion! If it was me I would just call Re-sound and ask them.
Our station attorney Stag Pinstripe says, "your guess is as good as mine", which is all you can expect from a fictitious radio character.
But we do have resident copyright scholar Tim in Bovey who has studied many of these issues and all he asks is that we wait until he gets here in his daily rounds.
I'm not suggesting that those who listen are breaking any laws. I just can't see that someone with an Internet stream, ahering to the copyright laws of their country, should have to understand the copyright laws of every other country in the world to determine if the material is copyrighted there.
You can surf over to WEBSDR.ORG and listen to online receivers in other countries; many of them capable of picking up their local AM broadcast stations (and some long-wave signals). In effect, you are listening to an audio stream of said stations and their music programming, legalities be damned!
There's a quagmire of international copyright laws and agreements. Then there's the Berne Convention.
Suffice it to say, if what you're broadcasting is legal to broadcast (via over air or streaming) in your country, if someone somewhere else hears it, you're OK.
TIB
Thanks Tim.
As always, the knowledge source for all things copyright.