Mash Up Relief Bill
Most discussions around music probably don’t involve some politician from Pittsburg, but a recent debate in Washington has interjected one into the conversation. And in a positive light, to boot.
It just so happens that the mashup artist Girl Talk lives in the district of a congressman who sits on the Committee that deals with the issues surrounding music copyright. The politico has been using Girl Talk’s music as an example of why using other people’s music to create your own should be considered a valid form of art in the eyes of the law.
Newsweek recently had the Congressman, Mike Doyle, sit down over lunch with the man who is Girl Talk, Gregg Gillis, and talk about what kind of laws could be passed that would allow artists like him to thrive. (Girl Talk’s music has been pulled from eMusic and iTunes over legal concerns.)
| Gillis said that he’d try to find a middle ground where some samples were OK because of fair-use provisions in the law and others paid for by a reasonable fee. The congressman listened, but admitted the odds were long for a Mash-Up Relief bill. "Some members don’t even want to understand it," he said. "They just get a call from the industry saying, ‘Bad’." |
A Mash-Up Relief bill… classic.
Date posted: Wednesday, July 11th, 2007 3:16 pm | Under category: Digital Music, Economics, Policy
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