Wednesday, April 26, 2006

The PERFORM ACT

The PERFORM ACT
by WILLIAM PATRY
The Patry Copyright Blog, publication date: 26 April 2006
"Warner Music Group's charismatic, articulate, and visionary chairman/CEO is quoted in written testimony for today's hearing as using the famous walking, swimming, and quacking duck metaphor for what he regards as a download service. That may be a stretch, but the product's file separation ability is a very active step in encouraging consumers to make copies that would interfere with true downloads through iTunes. One could of course draft legislation limited to music and still permit other uses, but we will have to wait to see the actual bill to make any judgments about the scope of the legislation."

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