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    By Jay Lyman

    NewsFactor Network 

    November 28, 2000 


British recording stars Paul McCartney and Elton John took aim at 
free Internet music traders like Napster and MP3.com on Monday, 
claiming that the practice of online copying and trading hurts the 
very artists people love to hear.  

British Music Rights (BMR), a trade organization of songwriters and 
music publishers, launched its "Respect the Value of Music" offensive 
using Forrester Research numbers that place music industry losses 
from free online music trading at a potential US$3 billion by 2005.  

"This isn't just the high-profile, high-earning music creators," BMR 
said in a statement, "but also those thousands of composers and 
songwriters who are not in the public eye but who depend upon the 
income from their work to continue making music."  

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