Voluntary Collective Licensing for Music File Sharing.

This article focuses on the music recording industry. The legal battles surrounding peer-to-peer file sharing are a losing proposition for everyone. The record labels continue to face lackluster sales, while tens of millions of American file-sharing music fans are made to feel like criminals. The li...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 47; no. 10; pp. 21 - 25
Autor principal: Von Lohmann, Fred
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Oct2004
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