In what could be a blueprint for the future of sharing commercial music on the Internet, the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Wednesday released a white paper outlining a scheme to squelch squabbles between the music industry and online peer-to-peer networks over music file-sharing in cyberspace. “I think this idea is a way for Internet file sharing to still work and the recording industry to still make money and artists’ rights to still be protected,” Joseph Bernstein, an intellectual property attorney with Wallenstein Wagner & Rockey in Chicago, told TechNewsWorld.
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Plan Unveiled To Quell Music Industry-P2P Hostilities
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. February 26, 2004 07:54 AMIn what could be a blueprint for the future of sharing commercial music on the Internet, the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Wednesday released a white paper outlining a scheme to squelch squabbles between the music industry and online peer-to-peer networks over music file-sharing in cyberspace. “I think this idea is a way for Internet file sharing to still work and the recording industry to still make money and artists’ rights to still be protected,” Joseph Bernstein, an intellectual property attorney with Wallenstein Wagner & Rockey in Chicago, told TechNewsWorld.