REGARDING A NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE WITH LINK AND EXCERPT BELOW: The digital music industry has greeted a plan by the Progressive Policy Institute, a Democratic Leadership Council research group, to call for legislation to revise copyright law with a thanks but no thanks response. The research groups proposal to revise copyright law was in order to deal with new technologies and companies that employ them to enable downloading of copyright protected digital recordings from the internet at no cost to internet users. The industry notes rapid change in technology and also notes sales growth resulting from the technology that permits more widespread sampling of music as reasons for seeking to control the situation with litigation under already existing laws and other means instead of having the methods for coping with rapid industry changes being cast in concrete by new legislation. Getting music by cell phone is just one of the new industry developments waiting in the wings. This discussion of options in dealing with internet copyright violations in downloading of digital materials was held in Congressional hearings called by the House Small Business Committee to investigate the intellectual property violation problems related to digital materials on the websites.
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Source: New York Times (NYT)
Author: JERI CLAUSING
Title: Online Music Industry Tells Congress to Leave It Alone
Source Date: May 25, 2000
Resource Type: News Article
Description/Keywords: Digital Entertainment Industry, Digital
Music, Technological Change, Intellectual Property Law,
Copyright Law, New Legislation, Industry Position,
Opposition, Litagation, Lawsuits, Court Enforcement
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May 25, 2000
Online Music Industry Tells Congress to Leave It Alone
By JERI CLAUSING
WASHINGTON -- Executives from independent and online music
companies asked Congress to keep its hands off their industry
while traditional businesses and copyright interests adapt to
new technologies and controversial song-swapping services like
Napster.
"Let the lawsuits play out," said Tom Silverman, the chief executive of Tommy Boy Records and a member of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). "The dust has to settle."
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