Brazilian musicians urge a third way on digital copyright

The Professional Musicians Union of Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian Association of Independent Music (ABMI), and 130 Brazilian musicians, composers and artists have written the Minister of Culture.  The letter urges the government to find a third way out of the copyright reform deadlock, which ensures payment of creators, but which does not criminalize end user downloading.  It also calls for the creation of a body within the MOC to focus specifically on music.

Click here for the full text of the letter (in Portuguese).

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  • Mike Palmedo

    Mike Palmedo is the admin for infojustice.org, and he manages interdisciplinary research on copyright exceptions at American University College of Law's Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property. He has Masters degrees Economics and in International Affairs, and is an economics PhD candidate.

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