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Wired News: Interview with Former RIAA Head Hilary Rosen

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on July 10, 2006 - 12:57pm.
San Francisco - Wired News on Monday published an interview with former Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) head Hilary Rosen, who has since gone on to launch a consultancy whose clients include XM Satellite Radio -- which is currently involved in litigation with the record labels. "I think it's a fair thing to question the ongoing value of the individual lawsuits now when there's so much opportunity in the legitimate marketplace," Rosen said of the thousands of copyright infringement suits the RIAA has filed against individual file-swappers. On the RIAA's lawsuit against XM over radios that can record songs: "It's in the business sphere, although the RIAA has taken it into the political sphere to try and get legislation to regulate these recorders, and I just am optimistic that there will be a settlement. I think this doesn't rise to the level of court precedent and legal precedent and frankly, I think if the court case continued, the record companies would lose," Rosen told Wired News.

http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,71338-0.html

tags: Law | Radio | Music | XM Radio | RIAA | Copyright | Interviews | Hilary Rosen |



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