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As lawyer Cathy Gellis points out, at least in the US, it's likely against copyright law for many radio stations [to play nothing but Bowie's stuff for 24 hours straight as comedian Eddie Izzard suggested.]
[...] It's written directly into US Copyright law (at the bottom of the page)[1]. At some point, years ago, Congress (or, more likely, a recording industry lobbyist), wrote up rules that said online radio couldn't play too many songs in a row by a single [artist], because of the ridiculous fear that if they could, no one would buy music any more.
[...] Once again, it seems that copyright law is getting in the way of what sounds like a perfectly lovely idea: creating a day-long tribute to David Bowie. No wonder he was so keen on having copyright go away entirely.
In 2002, he gave an interview to the NY Times in which he predicted the end of copyright altogether, [paywall] as well as record labels, as they would no longer serve a useful purpose.
[1] Page does not degrade gracefully; content is invisible (without stylesheets, apparently).
(Score: 3, Interesting) by quadrox on Friday January 15 2016, @03:13PM
THe point is probably that it is much easier to create an internet radio station than a terrestrial one - which means that in theory you could create a separate station for each artist/album/song/whatever. At that point nobody would have to buy music anymore, because you could just connect the station featuring the music you want to listen to right now.
How feasible such a large number of radio stations would be in reality, I don't know. But at least there wouldn't be any spectrum/frequency limitations such as with terrestrial radio.