Napster Wants Compulsory Web Music Licensing

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WASHINGTON — Embattled music-trading service Napster Inc., with hundreds of its users and pop singers Alanis Morissette and Don Henley in attendance, Tuesday asked Congress to force publishers to offer their catalogs online.

There is a “failure in the marketplace,” Hank Barry, Napster’s interim chief executive, told the Senate Judiciary Committee. He said compulsory licenses would provide consumers more than the smattering of songs now available online and simultaneously assure that publishers and artists are compensated for their work.


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