Esa forwarde this to me. This must be the first time in my life that I
agree with a republican politician... ;)
http://www.inside.com/story/Story_Cached/0,2770,6643_9,00.html
Hatch Warns Labels, Don't Make Me Come Over There and Spank You
By�Charles C. Mann
Tuesday , July 11 06:47 p.m.
WASHINGTON -- Get on the stick, labels.
That was the message of Republican Senator Orrin G. Hatch to the
recording industry during a remarkable hearing of the Senate
Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. Facing a veritable who's who of the
music-copyright wars, Chairman Hatch threatened -- in surprisingly
direct terms -- to force the music labels and publishers, by legislation,
to make their content digitally available for a standard fee if the
record business continued to ensnarl e-music with lawsuits. As a capper,
Hatch suggested that Congress might even go so far as to offer its
own comprehensive definition of ''fair use'' to hasten the arrival of paid
digital music -- an action that would have implications far beyond music.
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