December 19, 2008
Recording Industry Proposes 'Tax' on Students
Colleges could skirt lawsuits for some students' alleged piracy by charging all of them a flat rate.
Warner Music Group is in talks with several universities about this experiment in "voluntary blanket licensing," said a recent post on the blog Techdirt. Colleges would collect the money, and the recording industry, through a nonprofit organization, would distribute it to artists, according to a slide-show presentation in the Techdirt post.
The blanket license, the presentation
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