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[atlarge-discuss] news from the Copyright Front...



In addition to the proposed 6 month moratorium on payments for the CARP DCMA
fiasco and the further enrichment of BMI/ASCAP/SESAC, Stanford's Law
School's Institute on Society and the Internet has drafted a motion for a
stay for the payments mandated in October by the CARP and the Librarian of
Congress (LoC).  FYI - This motion was filed last week on Friday with the
LoC.

The motion itself is a "prayer for immediate relief" in that it seeks to
stay all payments in the models that were put in place by the LoC until such
time as the appeals to the those (CARP) decisions are adjudicated in Federal
Court. The first of these payments are due form the Streaming Community in
October, some few days away - so this is really a last minute effort.

The arguments in the motion cite several grounds including that this CARP
payment scheme will inhibit** (read as 'bankrupt') most non-commercial
streaming sources on the Internet. But if you have an interest in DCMA and
the legal morass around it, I can send you the PDF if you are like, it  is
186K so its not to painful.

Todd Glassey



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