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Op-Ed by Billy Bragg in Saturday's NY Times discusses online music, but its message reverberates for e-books too. It describes the hole online musicians find themselves in, a hole dug by the corporations and the consumers, that leaves them at the mercy of others who just don't seem to see the need to pay them for their work. At its heart is this important point:
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If young musicians are to have a chance of enjoying a fruitful career, then we need to establish the principle of artists’ rights throughout the Internet — and we need to do it now.
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