He was born and raised in the netherlands and moved to new york in 2010. Thanks for being here. Good afternoon, mr. Chairman and members of the committee. Im peter weijmarshausen. Im ceo and founder of shapeways. Im honored to be here today to discuss how 3d printing is fueling Small Business growth enabling anyone to create a business with fiscal products at low capital cost. As a kid in the netherlands, i loved playing with computers resulting in a passion for open Source Software. Driven by this and my entrepreneurial spirit, i spent much of my career at Startup Software companies. One was blender, the First Company to publish a free 3d software. This turned out to be important. In 2006 i learned about the technology called 3d printing which prints physical objects based on 3d computer designs. I immediately thought of the blender community. A large group of enthusiasts. They were using 3d software but never imagined it would be possible to hold their own designs in their hands. I a
Leader malcolm x. In fact, fought not far from where im standing. We ask about his legacy,. So the rapidly deteriorating situation in yemen has taken an interesting turn. The deposeed president president hadi, has left the capitol of sanaa. Hadi is now in southern yemen where he has a power base among sunni muslims. He became president back in february of 2012 the first sunni leader to take the post. He was forced to resign on january 22nd after houthi fighters stormed the president ial palace. Two weeks later the houthies dissolved parliament and kept and they kept monsour and his parliament under house arrest. Live through aden, any update, mohammed, on what deposed president hadi is going to do next . Yes commander during the last few hours there was this expectation that president hadi would deliver a speech in aiden. Now we have information that he may not be doing that tonight but at the same time there is a meeting hes presiding over, a meeting by the local Security Community he
Will it be enough for now . Plus. Some of the 13,000 refugees crossing from myanmar into china. Beside me are chinese soldiers trying to prevent us filming. And in sport the boxing match made in money heaven. Floyd mayweather and Mani Pacquiao the most lucrative fight history hello, yemens former president Abdrabbu Mansour hadi has left the capital sanaa after being held for weeks by houthi rebels. They are reported to have ransacked the house, and he is now in southern yemen. We have on set Hashem Ahelbarra, who has reported extensively from yemen, and well go to sanaa to get the reaction. Hashem ahelbarra what are you hearing about how this operation was carried out. Well yemens political saga continues. We dont know how he managed to leave the house, its shrouded in mystery. This is something that has happened by everyone, the entourage, and the houthis are surprised the man left the house without consulting. Its a significant development, knowing that Abdrabbu Mansour hadi is now i
Are buying in order to figure out what each cost and also i would note that on the songwriter side, Songwriters Guild featured Music Coalition that have brought up issues of transparency because arbitration might lead to issues where the artists themselves dont necessarily know what the rate is or how it was decided. I think my time is up mr. Chairman. Thank you. Senator franken. Thank you mr. Chairman for this hearing. Mr. Harris and you talked about this 150,000dollar fine that could be imposed for infringing. Have you ever paid such a fine . No sir. How many times has that fine in your experience your knowledge been imposed . Well in the context of pandora. Just in the whole ego system of this . Oh hundreds if not thousands of Copyright Infringement cases going on right now. Farah williams is involved with a lawsuit over marvin gayes estate of her blurred lines were statutory damages and willful infringement are being sought by the plaintiffs. I go back to the question, how many tim
Pretty telling example of what the state of competition is there. So, i think that the publishers would be able to begin to act like that. Because they have similar levels of market concentration and for partial withdrawals i think the danger with partial withdrawals over just disbanding the Consent Decrees entirely is that we have seen how the pros and ascap act when they think they can partially withdraw and it resulted in a lot of competition problems and my concern is that if the doj was to then say have you seen that now you can partially withdraw it could be even in add ver tently be seen. Mr. Miller i really appreciated your testimony. Just as a reminder of the creative individuals who are in many ways at the beginning of this conversation, although miss griffin reminds us consumers are critical. Theres a lot of different folks involved. A lot of different stage but mr. Miller, not all song writers want to have some of their Performance Rights pulled out of pros and do you agree