[www.bloomberg.com]

In French, sorry about this.

[www.lemonde.fr]

both articles Very interesting. Thanks.

Final part of final remarks of Commissioner Kroes might be promising in that she warns music industries and collecting societies to "reach sensible solutions, allowing simple, workable licensing systems to be created". I hope Mick can help in giving sensible advice from the artist perspective but also from the consumer perspective.

Promising is also the final warning in which, on the problem of the music market on line, she seems not willing to buy the music industry prohibitionist lament: "if a solution to the problems we face today is not found, then the music industry can hardly complain if regulators or enforcers step in."

That I read as: "...step in not in the way you wish they'd do..."

let's see what happen...

If Mick and Neelie Kroes would only have met some 30 years earlier....

Anyway, Mrs. Kroes is very notorious for protecting the free market (yes, the US could
learn a lot from her), so I guess she is strongly against taking any measures that would
give the traditional music industry any advantage over competition from any source.

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Damm, I missed him. I was in town wednesday.

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