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EFF Lawyer Argues For Compulsory Music Licenses
An anonymous reader submits "Fred von Lohmann, lead intellectual property lawyer at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, wrote an op-ed in the Daily Princetonian urging compulsory licensing of copyrighted music. The system would allow internet users to copy music freely and legally, in exchange for a flat monthly fee to be shared by artists and record labels. He says schools like Princeton might be a good place to test the approach."
...compulsory spell-checker "lcensing"?
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The system would allow internet users to copy music freely and legally,
...in exchange for a flat monthly fee to be shared by artists and record labels.
Finally. That would solve our problems.
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If you go to Princeton, I hope you're smart enough not to.
I have a major problem with this. I do not download music. The majority of the music I listen to is on casette tapes. I own perhaps 6 really purchased music CDs. The rest are dupes from casettes that I purchased years ago. I am even in the process of collecting 8-track tapes of real music to convert to CD but I will not share them. I will keep the tapes of the origional music to prove that I purchased them. I have absolutely no desire to pay for someone else's music downloads. Yea, I rant a bit but what the heck, I can afford to. Oh, and I listen to both kinds of music, Country AND Western.
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