Public Knowledge has released "Public Knowledge Urges Congress to Promote a Competitive Marketplace in Music Modernization Act."
Here's an excerpt:
The Music Modernization Act is a rare bill that will bring positive change to the world of musical copyright. We applaud Representative Collins for including a number of pro-competitive and pro-consumer provisions in the Act, such as a blanket license, new performing rights organization, and a searchable, publicly accessible database of licensing information. . . .
The CLASSICS Act attempts to solve a systemic problem in copyright law—the lack of federal protection for pre-1972 sound recordings—by treating its symptoms. In doing so, it sweeps in countless archival and historical recordings, and grants them terms that in some cases exceed two centuries in duration. By refusing to commit works published prior to 1923 to the public domain (where they rightly belong), the language of CLASSICS endangers archival and historical activities.
Read more about it: H.R. 3301: CLASSICS Act and H.R. 4706: Music Modernization Act of 2017.
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