November 8, 2002

Record Companies Should Learn to Profit From File Sharing, Conference Speakers Say

Record companies should live with and profit from file sharing, instead of fighting it, intellectual-property experts and representatives of songwriters said at a conference on copyright law.

The one-day conference, sponsored by American University's Washington College of Law, was meant to promote discussion on how to protect the copyrights of music and other intellectual property in the age of peer-to-peer file-sharing networks, which allow multiple users to download copyrighted

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