Eric Baptiste Weighs In On Copyright Summit Issues 75
With the upcoming biennial summit of authors and composers in Washington DC, The Register has an interview with Eric Baptiste, head of the International Confederation of Authors and Composers Societies (CISAC), that touches on some of the hot issues. "There's no one-stop shopping anymore. We were working to put that in place in the Santiago Agreement [2000] which got struck down by the European Commission [in 2004]. It would put together all the world's repertory and enable one society to grant a worldwide license. That was a very bold move. It's a pity it was not appreciated at the time by the European Commission."
Problem solved (Score:4, Funny)
"Put together all the world's repertory and enable one society to grant a worldwide license..."
He's talking about torrents, right? ;)
Re:One Gem But Otherwise Nothing (Score:5, Funny)
Now it's like physics - value is never destroyed, it goes somewhere else.
He hasn't gotten to the chapter on entropy yet... It's going to blow his mind.