Vivvo CMS 4.1 http://www.rbr.com/ ©2010 Spoonlabs d.o.o. http://www.rbr.com/files.php?file=rss_logo1_757997737.jpg http://www.rbr.com/ http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/17536.html WASHINGTON BEAT Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:55:00 -0400 FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski addressed the Policy Summit of The Future of Music Coalition yesterday. The organization has long been at odds with broadcasters over WASHINGTON BEAT Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:10:12 -0400 Ironically, the “Future of Music Coalition” is a lobbying group whose purpose appears to be to undermine copyright — and, hence, the futures of musicians! A look at its Board of Directors, advisory board, and supporters shows that they overlap heavily with those of Free Press, the New America Foundation, Public Knowledge, and other groups — most of them controlled by Google — whose mission is to undermine copyright protections and regulate the Internet. (Google also supports the “Future of Music Coalition” directly.) And no wonder - the looser copyright restrictions are, the more Google profits from products like YouTube, its search engine, and its proposed "Google Books" service (in which it would reproduce whole books with little or no compensation to the authors or their heirs).The group’s blogs are filled with alarmist propaganda saying that the Internet must be regulated now — to save musicians! — as if ISPs would cut off all music tomorrow if they could. But the regulation would, in fact, prevent ISPs from reining in illegal copying of music and thus would harm musicians rather than helping them.No musician who ever hopes to make a dime selling albums should be a member of this group.It’s no surprise that Julius Genachowski didn’t say much about his intended regulation at the event. While no one knows what the proposed rules will say, the Chairman’s rush to regulate has already come under fire from many members of Congress, and runs counter to his own assertions the FCC will now be “data driven” and regulate only when markets do not work. One can only hope that the FCC will publish a Notice of Inquiry, rather than a Notice of Proposed Rule Making, at the upcoming meeting, and study the matter before proposing rules. WASHINGTON BEAT Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:35:47 -0400 If you think the FMC has "steered clear of the PRC battle," you should search their web site. Here's just one article I found: http://futureofmusic.org/blog/2009/08/19/fmcs-casey-rae-hunter-talks-about-performance-right-act