[Fwd:Electronic Frontier Foundation Launches "Let the Music Play" Campaign]

["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Subject: EFFector 16.17: Electronic Frontier Foundation Launches "Let
the Music Play" Campaign
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 14:43:19 -0700 (PDT)
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* EFF Launches "Let the Music Play" Campaign

Urges 60 Million Music Lovers in U.S. to Demand Legal Rights

San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on 
Monday, June 30, launched a "Let the Music Play" campaign urging 
the more than 60 million U.S. citizens who use file-sharing 
software to demand changes in copyright law to get artists paid 
and make file- sharing legal.

The EFF Let the Music Play campaign counters the Recording 
Industry Association of America's (RIAA) announcement that it 
will file thousands of lawsuits against individuals who use file-
sharing software like Kazaa, Grokster, and Morpheus.

"Copyright law is out of step with the views of the American 
public and the reality of music distribution online," said EFF 
Executive Director Shari Steele. "Rather than trying to sue 
people into submission, we need to find a better alternative that 
gets artists paid while making file sharing legal."

EFF's Let the Music Play campaign provides alternatives to the 
RIAA's litigation barrage, details EFF's efforts to defend peer-
to-peer file sharing, and makes it easy for individuals to write 
members of Congress. EFF will also place advertisements about the 
Right to Share campaign in magazines such as Spin, Blender, 
Computer Gaming World, and PC Gamer.

"Today, more U.S. citizens use file-sharing software than voted 
for President Bush," said EFF Senior Staff Attorney Fred von 
Lohmann. "Congress needs to spend less time listening to record 
industry lobbyists and more time listening to the more than 60 
million Americans who use file-sharing software today."

According to online media analyst Big Champagne, more than 60 
million Americans are using file-sharing software.

For this release:
http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/20030630_eff_pr.php

EFF file-sharing campaign site:
http://www.eff.org/share

EFF alert requesting Congressional hearings on file-sharing
technologies:
http://action.eff.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=2713

EFF file-sharing ad:
http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/music-to-our-ears.php

How to not get sued for file sharing:
http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/howto-notgetsued.php

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