There's some background noise. Not a lot, but I'm pretty sure I can take it out with very slight effort on Audacity.

I didn't notice the beginning sound, but it's probably an accidental bit of audio left-in from an imperfect clip.

The government has produced a promotional video for Talossa!  It's in contemporary TikTok style and 50 seconds long, and we think things like this have a chance of going viral again.  It's not a sure thing, of course, but we can re-use stuff like this many times in the future.

This is a first attempt, so please -- give us your feedback!  What needs to be fixed?  What needs to be added?  What hits wrong?

https://youtube.com/shorts/U3JQ6cYlVMY

To Do List

• Remove audio noise.

I'm a Talossan lawyer, but that doesn't make me any kind of lawyer you'd want for any other court, much less a copyright and licensing lawyer, much less a British copyright and licensing lawyer.  But the PPL Linear Webcast License states pretty specifically that it doesn't cover any broadcasting outside of its "extended territory," which includes places like Mexico and Germany (for an annual £90), but does not include the United States.  Right now, the PPL fee is £207.

https://www.ppluk.com/help-centre/faq/besides-the-uk-which-countries-can-i-stream-to-under-a-linear-webcast-licence/

It seems like you also need another license, the PRS, too.

If your broadcast can be accessed in the United States, though, none of the copyright holders get paid for any listeners there, and so you need to pay for the rights to that by joining one of the licensing groups like ASCAP.

Honestly, the whole thing for Option 2 is just a nightmare, and unless you can drag a pro in here to work on it like @Sevastáin Pinátsch (who's no longer a citizen) then you're probably better off going for Option 1 or 3.

RadioKing sounds like a good choice for Option 3.

Okay, sounds like we have something going, here!

It seems like there are three approaches:

-No copyright.  Here, you'd broadcast only stuff that you had the rights to broadcast, as well as stuff that was royalty-free.  So this would include probably all Talossan content, plus royalty-free music (or music from a subscription service that includes royalty-free use of so many songs, usually for a monthly fee, like Epidemic Sound or Artlist).  This could be done with the Synology, or through a service like https://www.internet-radio.com/  The cost would be minimal.

-Music webcasting.  Here we get complicated, because the PPL license in the UK is intended for predominantly UK audiences.  You'd need two licenses for the UK (PPL and PRS) and then the US license probably ASCAP.  Honestly, we're talking like thousands of dollars at the end of the day.  You probably can't do this.

-A service like Live365 (https://live365.com/) which does everything for you, but which costs $65 a month.  This is a level of expense with which the Kingdom couldn't realistically do much except to defray a bit of that cost.  You'd probably need sponsors willing to shell out to cover the cost... $780 a year isn't insurmountable, but it's a lot.

Yeah, it's an old thread and some images aren't available in the UK -- check them out here: https://wiki.talossa.com/Zu%C3%A1vs_da_l%27Altah%C3%A1l_Rexhit%C3%A1l

@Tierçéu Rôibeardescù , @Mximo Malt , @Barclamïu da Miéletz , and @Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP , are you guys interested in moving forward with this?  I'd love to help get the infrastructure set up for broadcast, if you are.

Ordinarily we'd ask him to confirm that, but he mentioned you when immigrating and I think it's pretty clear.

Very nice!  What do you think the traffic on those pages might be?  They're not one of our national languages, so I'm not as inclined to reward them at the same rate as the English Wikipedia... maybe every ten edits on one of those gets a Day of Observance?

By the way, have you decided what you want for your first one?

I got the game Katamari Damacy out of the library for my girls to play, and I have been also enjoying the soundtrack.  It's amazing.

I'm back, and everything seems to be standing.

All Progs should check our private forum for a vote that has begun today.

Just an FYI: I am out of town and away from my computer for a Nine Inch Nails concert, and I will have limited availability for the next couple of days.

Quote from: Tierçéu Rôibeardescù on February 12, 2026, 09:35:49 PMDo we have any... data on even just engagement numbers per captia of citizens on Wittenberg? Just curious

Yes, on our national information portal, Infotecă, you can check on the Wittenberg tab (or look on the visualizations tab for a graph, or look at the stats on Witt yourself at the bottom of the main forum page).

Wow, that's astonishing.  Things have changed -- you never used to need anything back in the day (although I guess we're talking like 20 years ago at this point, and maybe we were supposed to have one even then).  It seems like there's a lot of people who know about this stuff and can offer help, though!  That's amazing!  That's what we're all about here!

Quote from: Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP on February 12, 2026, 01:24:42 PM

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on February 12, 2026, 01:11:29 PMI don't think you need any kind of license to do broadcast "radio" over the Internet.

You do where I'm from, sadly.

Wait, really? I'm surprised. I guess it would probably need to be headquartered somewhere that makes it possible, then.

Quote from: Mximo Malt on February 12, 2026, 12:29:30 PMI was thinking of having a block of faith-related programming, would this violate the First Covenant in any way? I think it would since we're establishing this as part of the Government.

If this were a Government project, then the Government would run it.  This would be a private project, and accordingly you could do faith-based programming at your whim (and based on the desires of any collaborators).

However, I'd be happy to contribute in a private fashion just like His Majesty to some kind of joint thing; not religious, of course, but maybe a short weekly show about what the government has been doing or issues of concern.  I mean, a lot of interesting stuff happens... today I informed someone who applied under the name "Adolf Hitler" with the alias "Osama bin Laden" that their application was incomplete, for example.  (Somehow I doubt that the gentleman's application is going to work out.)

Quote from: Mximo Malt on February 12, 2026, 12:29:30 PMAlso, should we have a licence to fund RNT?

I don't think you need any kind of license to do broadcast "radio" over the Internet.

If you're interested, you can message the other people involved or just propose something here.  Options you might want to consider:

• Making it a legal incorporation with rules about how decisions are made. (You'd need a lawyer for this probably.)
• Asking for your own forum after things get going.
• Deciding on your branding and what programming you'd want to offer.  Presumably chosen music, but also old Talossan media and new language programs.  I'd offer the episodes of Beric'ht Auscultuval to be played, if it helps.
  
  I'd be happy to offer any assistance I can.  I know from experience that running a media thing is likely to burn you out, unless you find a way to share the burden.  I published Beric'ht Talossan for two years without missing an issue, and it's only because I had many others on whom I could rely for content.

It sounds like there's three people with some level of interest here... @Mximo , @Tierçéu , and @Barclamïu , maybe you could collaborate?  Take it from me when I say that most of the successful media enterprises involve more than one person.  That way they don't fall apart when that person's initial surge of interest dissipates.  In fact, @Tafi was also interested in trying to get a journalism thing going in el glheþ -- you guys could all four team up and make this into something really dynamic, without any one person feeling all of the pressure.

Historically, for audio stuff there's been:

• RT Radio
• Beric'ht Auscultaval
• The Talossan News Project
• and the once-official Regipäts Televiziun (RTV)

I feel like I'm missing something, though.

I've added you to the rolls as a private.  Any cultural thing you do will earn a promotion to Private Second Class, and then it takes two more to be promoted to Private First Class.  And so on.  Welcome!