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Advocates for online file swapping Tuesday squared off with representatives from the music and motion picture industries at the Comdex trade show for a lively debate about digital rights management.
The controversial issue of file-swapping dominated the discussion from the sharply divided panel, which pitted Ted Cohen, the vice president of digital development and distribution at EMI Group PLC's EMI Recorded Music against the likes of Richard Stallman, president of the Free Software Foundation and a staunch opponent of digital copyright protections.
"EMI believes in making music available at a reasonable price, with reasonable rights for reasonable use," Cohen said at the start of the discussion.
Cohen said his company supports the online distribution of music so long as it can be done in such a way that allows artists and record companies to still make money.
His comments prompted an immediate and lengthy rebuttal from Stallman, who argued that music companies like EMI were tyrannical and had a long history of cheating musicians out of their royalties.
Stallman likened music file swapping to an act of civil disobedience that actually benefited artists by disempowering large media conglomerates.
Also taking part in the panel were so-called "cognitive dissident" John Perry Barlow, cofounder and vice chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation; J. Scott Dinsdale, vice president of digital strategy for the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), and Jonathan Potter, executive director of the Digital Media Association.
At the heart of the discussion was whether rapid advances in digital reproduction technology over the past decade have outstripped the business models and legal protections used by the music and entertainment industries for most of this century.
The MPAA's Dinsdale said that choice should be the driving force in decisions of digital rights management. Creators of songs and movies should be able to decide how they want to distribute their work to the public.
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