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Originally Posted by giddion
Charbax please I need your assistance, you keep referring to an "Oboma art tax" or a new "Oboma Law" and yes I have gone back through your entire post history on this forum, but you never provide a link to any news articles or any reliable information source regarding this subject.
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Warner Music for example, acknowledges that a Music Tax is the only viable solution:
http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs...-public-debate
The French Socialist presidential candidate who lost by a relatively small margin in 2007 to right wing conservative Nicolas Sarkozy was proposing to introduce this art tax in France under the name "The Global Licence". There are links but in French.
The $125 million Google Books Settlement includes a full unrestricted free access for Universities to all books. And it includes plans for a global Google Books subscription plan. Simply make it law so that the Google Subscription plan should work across the whole Internet and through other providers. I think most people would agree. Arguably, the industry could figure out that unlimited art subscription price for themselves, and set margins and shares, roaming fees and all that by themselves in the industry. Though I think it is pretty obvious that even well intentionned Google and Amazon and plenty other wannabe online Book/blogs/music/movies publishing giants cannot just agree on setting an inter operable standard on subscription prices and on the models for redistribution of that subscription money to artists. Thus I think it makes quite a lot of sense that this needs to be International and regulated by the Governments. You cannot let the industry regulate itself, that never works.
Although the official language can be interpreted very broadly. You could read into following statements of the Obama agenda on
http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/technology/
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Ensure the Full and Free Exchange of Ideas through an Open Internet and Diverse Media Outlets
Protect the Openness of the Internet: Support the principle of network neutrality to preserve the benefits of open competition on the Internet.
Encourage Diversity in Media Ownership: Encourage diversity in the ownership of broadcast media, promote the development of new media outlets for expression of diverse viewpoints, and clarify the public interest obligations of broadcasters who occupy the nation's spectrum.
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