IP: CONGRESS FACES DEFINING ISSUE OVER COPYRIGHT LAW: Edupage, December 17, 2001

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Interactive Web radio stations may be granted the same licenses
> other radio stations have if proposed changes to the Digital
> Millennium Copyright Act are accepted by Congress. A House
> Judiciary Committee will review the proposal, which the
> Recording Industry Association of America opposes. Current law
> limits the type of radio broadcasts that recording studios must
> offer licenses to, and the Web broadcasters in the Digital Media
> Association want to broaden that definition. Metrics firm
> MeasureCast said the number of people listening to Internet
> radio in October tripled since January, and Jupiter Media Metrix
> has said 30 million consumers will have bought music online this
> year.
> (InternetNews.com, 13 December 2001)

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