Comments on: USTR ‘AllofMP3.com’ paper http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10569 p2pnet.net - reader powered Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:30:38 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10569/comment-page-1#comment-130989 Reader's Write Thu, 30 Nov 2006 01:08:56 +0000 #comment-130989 The agreement has this interesting paragraph: [quote] work actively with the Duma to enact by June, 2007: amendments to the law to provide that collecting societies may act only on behalf of rights holders that explicitly authorize such action [/quote] It will take amendments to the current laws to have the licenses issued by ROMS declared illegal. This means that Allofmp3 is still legal at the moment! Remember? Allofmp3 stated that they were legal because the have been licensed by the collecting society Roms and that Roms did not need prior authority by labels and artists to grant licenses to sell music. Allofmp3 was right all the time, Big Music knew this and tried to fool us. Big Music had to use dirty tactics like lobbying to be able to act against Allofmp3 because legally they were empty handed. The agreement has this interesting paragraph:

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work actively with the Duma to enact by June, 2007:

amendments to the law to provide that collecting societies may act only on behalf of rights holders that explicitly authorize such action [/quote]

It will take amendments to the current laws to have the licenses issued by ROMS declared illegal. This means that Allofmp3 is still legal at the moment! Remember? Allofmp3 stated that they were legal because the have been licensed by the collecting society Roms and that Roms did not need prior authority by labels and artists to grant licenses to sell music. Allofmp3 was right all the time, Big Music knew this and tried to fool us.

Big Music had to use dirty tactics like lobbying to be able to act against Allofmp3 because legally they were empty handed.

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