CARP reform bill ready for House floor

[Joseph Lorenzo Hall <jhall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

[...] (From the Radio And Internet Newsletter (RAIN))

A bill intended to reform the copyright arbitration process known as
CARP has passed the House Judiciary Committee, and will next go to the
full House of Representatives for a vote.

H.R. 1417, the "Copyright Royalty and Distribution Reform Act,"
addresses criticism that the current CARP system is unnecessarily
expensive, that arbitrators often lack the necessary expertise to
render fair decisions, and that CARP decisions tend to be inconsistent
and unpredictable. It was this system that produced the widely-panned
Internet webcast royalty determination in February of 2002.

Read more in today's issue of "RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter,"
is now available at http://www.kurthanson.com .

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Joseph Lorenzo Hall
Graduate Student                        http://pobox.com/~joehall