There are outside players involved in supporting both sides and seeking to apply diplomatic pressure on outside players to seek to minimize. Is there are concerns about protecting the assets of the libyan people in the form of the assets of the central bank to ensure that they dont get acquired by either side. I think its not about how much time he spent in libya. Northeast of them are taking place outside libya meetings in rome meetings in malta, meetings in tunisia, meetings in cairo. I think that would understate what hes doing to look only at the time spent in libya. Obviously, time spent in libya is restricted by security considerations. To be able to forge meaningful relationship stz. Good. President ,you touched upon in anxiousing my questions on the issue of being on the doorstep to europe. If so, how do we counter this threat, specifically on the migration issue . Well, the migration challenge is a threat to the whole of europe, not just to the u. K. But to the extent that tra
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
Hypothetical situations make worse law. In this case, i would just urge members of this committee not to make a decision based upon a hypothetical threat. Thats first. Second of all, the very fact that the Music Publishers were talking about are big enough to make a threat that scares ascap and b. M. I. Shoumd raise a lot of eyebrows on this committee and the department of justice. Those withdrawals as has been mentioned here the possibility of those withdrawals are best put in the light of what happened, if you take a look at what happened, when they threatened them. They engaged immediately in inclusive and competitive activity. If you want to see what will happen, that gives you a pretty good idea what should happen. That, i think, should really raise some eyebrows and raise a question whether or not they ought to have their own Consent Decrees, frankly. Okay. Do you want to respond at all, mr. Harrison . I agree with mr. Donald son. The concern is not partial withdrawals in theory
Different consent points. So here, in creating that market, its allowing new perspectives to enter into the market pay areas and launch consumers and give consumers a new choice. I have a general question for anyone if youd like to speak on it. Im trying to get a sense of each of your view what fair market value means for your perspective. And im happy to have anyone. But im really just trying to understand how the Consent Decree stands in the way of achieving it as well. But, to anyone, we can start down here with ms. Matthews. In an instance where they do not agree, either party can simply walk away when they do agree, presummablely, they would reach a freemarket rate. Schszs dont feel they have the ability to walk away, either. As a Small Business person, i think a free market is a place where i can decide whats most appropriate for my business. And, in this context, i dont feel like i can do that. We have collections that are sanctioned in their activity. Their very existence doesn
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