Re: Choruss: micropayments from ISPs to copyrightholders

[Phil Benchoff <benchoff () VT EDU>]

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 07:41:47AM -0700, Donald J Westlight wrote:
> I agree with Carl Ness of Iowa regarding micropayments to large music distributors.
>
> As an operator of an Internet Exchange I can't see paying an anti-competitive market force.  How are payments 
> determined?  Who gets the money? Who doesn't?  Anybody remember the bundling of MS-DOS?
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/28/griffin_wmg_p2p_deal/
> (original reference) http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/12/warner-music-gr.html
>
> Don Westlight
> Manager Network Engineering,   OHSU.EDU
> Director,   NWAX.NET

Here is an interesting post on the topic from Digital Bazaar:
   http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2009/04/04/collaborative-music-model/
pointing out some problems with a collective licensing model.

Phil