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Re: Napster selling CDs

Author:Fredrik Lundh
Posted:7/7/2000; 10:04:28 AM
Topic:Napster selling CDs
Msg #:18371 (In response to 18368)
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Who says Napster kills CD sales?

"Representatives of the phonograph recording industries in the 1900’s strongly argued to Congress that records merely served as advertising for the sheet music market; radio station owners in the 1920’s argued that radio served similarly to advertise the sales of sheet music; library photocopying of journal articles in the 1950’s and 1960’s was described by some as primarily an advertisement for the journals; the Supreme Court found that cable television in the late 1960’s merely promoted broadcast television."

(from Project Looking Forward - Sketching the Future of Copyright in a Networked World)

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