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09 Dec 08

Wired Campus: Recording Industry Proposes Taxing Students Instead of Suing Them - Chronicle.com

  • Warner Music Group is in talks with several universities about this experiment in “voluntary blanket licensing,” said a post last week on the blog Techdirt. Colleges would collect the money, and the recording industry, through a nonprofit organization, would distribute it to artists, according to a slideshow presentation embedded in the Techdirt post.
  • The blanket license, the presentation says, is similar to current models for radio and television. But all universities and Internet service providers would have to sign on, it says, for the plan to work. Techdirt didn’t like the sound of that.
08 Dec 08

p2pnet news » Blog Archive » Copyright Board hikes private copying levy

  • The result?  The board has, “increased the levy on each blank CD to 29 cents (it had been 21 cents),” says Michael Geist, going on:
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