* EFF Launches "Let the Music Play" Campaign
Urges 60 Million Music Lovers in U.S. to Demand Legal Rights
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on
Monday, June 30, launched a "Let the Music Play" campaign urging
the more than 60 million U.S. citizens who use file-sharing
software to demand changes in copyright law to get artists paid
and make file-sharing legal.
The EFF Let the Music Play campaign counters the Recording
Industry Association of America's (RIAA) announcement that it
will file thousands of lawsuits against individuals who use file-
sharing software like Kazaa, Grokster, and Morpheus.
"Copyright law is out of step with the views of the American
public and the reality of music distribution online," said EFF
Executive Director Shari Steele. "Rather than trying to sue
people into submission, we need to find a better alternative that
gets artists paid while making file sharing legal."
EFF's Let the Music Play campaign provides alternatives to the
RIAA's litigation barrage, details EFF's efforts to defend peer-
to-peer file sharing, and makes it easy for individuals to write
members of Congress. EFF will also place advertisements about the
Right to Share campaign in magazines such as Spin, Blender,
Computer Gaming World, and PC Gamer.
"Today, more U.S. citizens use file-sharing software than voted
for President Bush," said EFF Senior Staff Attorney Fred von
Lohmann. "Congress needs to spend less time listening to record
industry lobbyists and more time listening to the more than 60
million Americans who use file-sharing software today."
According to online media analyst Big Champagne, more than 60
million Americans are using file-sharing software.
For this release:
http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/20030630_eff_pr.php
EFF file-sharing campaign site:
http://www.eff.org/share
EFF alert requesting Congressional hearings on file-sharing
technologies:
http://action.eff.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=2713
EFF file-sharing ad:
http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/music-to-our-ears.php
How to not get sued for file sharing:
http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/howto-notgetsued.php
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