Three Major Record Labels Join the 'Choruss'

Three Major Record Labels Join the 'Choruss'

"U.S. universities are getting a glimpse at a plan that would build a small music-royalty fee into the tuition payments they receive from students. If successful, the model — proposed by digital music strategist Jim Griffin on behalf of Warner Music Group — could be expanded to make ISPs the collector of such micropayments, eliminating some of the most irksome and contentious issues dividing the music industry and its customers......A Wired.com poll showed that approximately 70 percent of readers would pay $10/month for legal access to all of the music on the internet, and we understand that Choruss would call for a significantly lower fees than that. Its detractors might be underestimating the consumer appeal of an inexpensive, unlimited and unrestricted music network."http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/...-music-gr.html"Is The RIAA Afraid to Sue Harvard Students?The RIAA sued its way into the new year, issuing 407 pre-litigation letters to students at 18 colleges and universities, including Bowdoin, Duke, MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UConn, and UCLA......Those professors are just way too sharp. They say things like, "there are seven parts of the answer to your question; I'm going to take the fourth part first -- here's why."......And pretty much across the board, they supported online innovation while continually questioning the utility of copyright. Many of them see today's copyright laws as a far cry from what the founding fathers intended when they set the term to expire after 14 years (today's copyright term lasts 95 years after a work's publication by a corporation).

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