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Senate Committee Holds Webcasting Hearing
jonathanjo writes "Yesterday (5/15/02) the US Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing titled: "Copyright Royalties: Where is the Right Spot On The Dial For Webcasting." This was a review of the work of CARP, the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel, the group formed by the DMCA that has closed down webstreaming for many independent radio stations with new high fees and exhaustive reporting requirements. Representatives from RIAA, Digital Media Association, Arbitron, Real Networks, and Yahoo gave testimony, as well as people representing two independent Vermont webcasters, and the American Federation Of Television and Radio Artists. Senator Patrick Leahy's (D-VT) testimony was surprisingly sympathetic to small webcasters (especially by inviting two from his state to speak). Orrin Hatch gave the expected pro-DMCA boilerplate."
heh. I get up, load up the old standby /. and what happens, I begin to get pissed off. Great way to start my day..thanks slashdot!!!
From "The Bitch";
"As you know, RIAA members own the copyrights in over ninety percent of the legitimate sound recordings produced in the United States, and..."
..and what? you are hungry for every frigging penny we can give you?
You woke up in a bad mood one day and said to hell with it? Someone find this woman a man quick! It is MS. Rosen afterall......ok, that's it, which of you (non) self-respecting geeks gonna jump on the grenade for the rest of us? You get a place in geekdom history on the wall next to the Smelly guy and Linus. Oh, and those old dudes with the slide-rules...you can play in their sandbox if you want. Someone get this woman out of commission for a while...I'll start by donating my trusty ear-plugs to the first geek that steps up....
HA, that'll happen.
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