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
Thank you. That was extremely helpful and, i think, a fantastic complement to what weve heard. Jan and i have negotiated. What we have decided to do is take one round of several questions, and then give the panel a chance to very briefly close, and then we hope we wont run too far over. There was right there. Teresa, national war college. I wanted to ask a question about the storage. Ambassador pascual, you noted that theres 14 billion cubic meters in ukraine right now. As far as i know, their Storage Capacity is 30 billion. I want to understand the ownership of that storage. Does is there a transparency problem . Is there a part russian ownership problem . In what sense is the storage in ukraine usable, and in what sense does it continue to be county. Okay. And right there. Thank you. Im from russia. What are the u. S. Policy goals in the energy field in ukraine, and what are the instruments to achieve those goals . My question is for ambassador pascual and others who want to comment.
I am sorry. This was the wrong decision. But i think its right that weve had a Public Inquiry in this country that is right that we have proper investigations. Yesterday, once again showed that no one is above the law in our country. Miliband . Mr. Speaker, today we know that for four years, the Prime Ministers handpicked closest adviser was a criminal and brought disgrace to downing street. We anyhow also know that the Prime Minister willfully ignored multiple warnings about him. On the 8th of july 2009, the guardian published evidence of phone hacking on an industrial scale when coulson was editor of the news of the world. At that time coulson was his director of communications. What action did he take . As i said a moment ago, the assurances i sought and received were the same assurances received by the press complaints commission, by select committee of this house and by police investigations. They were also thoroughly gone into by the leff levison inquir. Specifically, he talks ab
The question of whether it was going to be released in a formal way other than ofr is a different questioned. Should the ofr report be immurn from public kmeblt . No, on the contrary, it was meant to elicit a public debate and that occurred. I very much believe it should have been public chls it was public. Last year, you said it is un5 00 se unacceptable to be in a place where too big too fail has not ended. I think you may know, your predecessor said is it too big to exist . Using your words, can you tell this kplicommittee today, with honest, striegt face that weve ended too big too fail . Im not sure well know the answer to that question until we have the next financial crisis. Thats the challenge that we all have in asking have we gone far enough. But i will say what theres mr work underway. We have heard from multiple wrnss of the Corporate Bonds and are concerned about the ill liquidity. It strikes me as somewhat ironic that the vo lrksz ka rule is touted by you around others is
The house examines the 48 billion merger of at t and directv. The house hearing today looked at music licensing and copyright, in particular the legal issues surrounding broadcast music over the radio. Roseanne cash testified along with Paul Williams and executives from Pandora Radio and National Association of broadcasters. This house judiciary subcommittee hearing is just under three hours. Ladies and gentlemen the subcommittee of intellectual property of internet will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. We welcome our witnesses today. Let me get my chair adjusted here. Thank you. Good morning and welcome to the second of two hearings on music licensing issues. Two weeks ago this subcommittee heard from your fellow Music Industry representatives about their concerns with the state of music licensing copyright laws. Look around the room i think we can conclude that you all have more than a passing casual interest in this issue and we welcome all of yo