A new bill is introduced to set the ground rules for the online music distribution on the internet.
Free music sites such as Napster have been hobbled by lawsuits brought by the Recording Industry Association of America, whose major label members fear losing control of their music as it travels across the Internet.
The bill, introduced by Reps. Chris Cannon, R-Utah, and Rick Boucher, D-Va., attempts to streamline royalty payments for artists, make the distribution requirements for Webcasters more similar to broadcasters', and promote non-discriminatory music licenses.
This new law would require companies to license their songs to more than one distributor (such as napster, aimster etc). It would also make it easier to store the songs on a users hard drive.
The RIAA reacted negative. They said this is a very bad solution for the online music problem.
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Source: ZDNet
