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Artists Break With Industry on File Sharing

Washington Post

Tuesday 1 March 2005, 9:29 am
Keywords: Computer Topics , News Articles

Some Musicians Say Web Services Can Be Valuable Means of Distribution

By Jonathan Krim

A prominent group of musicians and artists, breaking with colleagues and the major entertainment studios, is urging the Supreme Court not to hold online file-sharing services responsible for the acts of users who illegally trade songs, movies and software.

"Musicians are not universally united in opposition to peer-to-peer file sharing" as the major records companies claim, according to a draft of the group's court filing. "To the contrary, many musicians find peer-to-peer technology . . . allows them easily to reach a worldwide online audience. And to many musicians, the benefits of this . . . strongly outweigh the risks of copyright infringement."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61254-2005Feb28.html