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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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