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# Publishers Finally Consider Blanket Net License Of Music
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/publishers_fina/
- Published: 2005-03-10T04:13:00.000Z
- Updated: 2005-03-10T04:13:00.000Z
- Description: From HollywoodReporter.com "A thaw might be brewing in the long-running dispute between music publishers and Internet distribution companies over royalty payments as the head of the publisher’s trade association told. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2005/03/publishers_fina.html]
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From HollywoodReporter.com "A thaw might be brewing in the long-running dispute between music publishers and Internet distribution companies over royalty payments as the head of the publisher’s trade association told Congress on Tuesday that it would consider a single mechanical royalty for some online song delivery services. National Music Publishers Assn. president and CEO David Israelite told the House Judiciary Committee’s copyright subcommittee that publishers were willing to consider a "blanket license" for many new forms of music delivery. "We’re willing to consider everything between the goal posts of radio and pure sale," Israelite told reporters after the copyright subcommittee’s hearing on the issue. "Everything under the umbrella of subscription services."