They had the following music artists on the panel: Anita Baker; Todd Rundgren, Victoria Shaw.
The corporates that were there were Warner Music; XM Satellite Radio; Live365, Bonneville International Corporation.
Noticely absent was anyone from Nullsoft the makers of WinAmp and Shoutcast.
Donations to political parties is readily available online just to http://www.fec.gov/disclosure there you will find reports where canidates are required to list the donor, their occupation and the amount given. This allows to see to group your local politicians owes a favor too. In addition, when you vote in primary elections most states will make it publically available which political party you registered for and whether or not you voted in the last election. This helps to make sure that we don't have fraudulent elections.
Looking at the FEC(Federal Election Commission) records the sponsor of this Bill, Mike Ferguson you will find the following additions to his Campaign Fund. TIME WARNER POLITICAL ACTION CMTE 2/26/2004 $1000 TIME WARNER POLITICAL ACTION CMTE 6/24/2004 $2000 TIME WARNER POLITICAL ACTION CMTE 9/23/2004 $1000 Though a little peculiar Mike Ferguson gave $1000 back to Time Warner on 03/16/2005.
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Here is the link for the video for the senate hearing on this: http://switchboard.real.com/player/email.html?PV=6 .0.12&&title=Sen.%20Judicaiary%20Cmte.%20Hearing%2 0on%20the%20Music%20Industry%20%26%20Digital%20Rad io&link=rtsp%3A%2F%2Fvideo.c-span.org%2F15days%2Fe 042606_music.rm
They had the following music artists on the panel: Anita Baker; Todd Rundgren, Victoria Shaw.
The corporates that were there were Warner Music; XM Satellite Radio; Live365, Bonneville International Corporation. Noticely absent was anyone from Nullsoft the makers of WinAmp and Shoutcast.Donations to political parties is readily available online just to http://www.fec.gov/disclosure there you will find reports where canidates are required to list the donor, their occupation and the amount given. This allows to see to group your local politicians owes a favor too. In addition, when you vote in primary elections most states will make it publically available which political party you registered for and whether or not you voted in the last election. This helps to make sure that we don't have fraudulent elections.
Looking at the FEC(Federal Election Commission) records the sponsor of this Bill, Mike Ferguson you will find the following additions to his Campaign Fund.
TIME WARNER POLITICAL ACTION CMTE 2/26/2004 $1000
TIME WARNER POLITICAL ACTION CMTE 6/24/2004 $2000
TIME WARNER POLITICAL ACTION CMTE 9/23/2004 $1000
Though a little peculiar Mike Ferguson gave $1000 back to Time Warner on 03/16/2005.