Politicos call for music copyright reform (News.com)

[Posted September 16, 2005 by ris]

New.com covers copyright reform lead by Representative Rick Boucher, a congressman from Virginia. "The remedy, he said, lies in a congressional rewrite of portions of copyright law that govern licensing and royalty fees and make it cumbersome for legal download services to add material to their inventories. Boucher said he hopes his committee will have a new bill written and reported to the U.S. House of Representatives by the end of this congressional term in November." (Thanks to Max Hyre)

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Politicos call for music copyright reform (News.com)

Posted Sep 16, 2005 21:02 UTC (Fri) by RMetz (guest, #27939) [Link] (2 responses)

Years ago, in the dim ages, when I still read slashdot regularly/at all, this guy actually gave an interview on slashdot. Let me repeat that. A politician at the national level was interviewed on SLASHDOT ~4-5 years ago. I'm sure it's still in the archives, google for it, he'll make your day. I don't know his stances on other issues, but when it comes to tech and the issues around it like IP, this guy is AWESOME.

I wish he was my congressman so I could vote for him.

Politicos call for music copyright reform (News.com)

Posted Sep 19, 2005 1:05 UTC (Mon) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link]

You can write to your members of Congress (both Representatives and Senators) and ask them to co-sponsor new copyright reform legislation when Rep. Boucher introduces it. Hey, Jon, LWN feature request...how about setting up a style to let readers convert their LWN comments into letters to Congress? I have done a blog2congress tool for my blog. Just think if2% of the comments on this site got turned into letters and mailed...

Politicos call for music copyright reform (News.com)

Posted Sep 22, 2005 20:25 UTC (Thu) by ayeomans (guest, #1848) [Link]

Interview here (27 March 2001).