Items acted upon today will appear on the october 18th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Okay. Thank you very much madam clerk number one. Authorizing the department of health a continue to receive funding for the emergency relief from the Health Administration and to request approximately 16. 5 million in hiv emergency podium relieve funding for a period of march 2017 to february 2018. Okay. Thank you madam clerk so do we have shawn from dph please come on up and speak. Good morning any questions for you at all. You want to give a quick overview but for the members of the public. Over 16 million. If you would sorry about that to hiv positive folks in the city and county of San Francisco for medical care transitional emergency housing and so forth. Thank you thank you for all you do on this topic seeing no questions and no budget analyst for anything mr. Rose thank you for being here today open up for Public Comment anyone wish to comment on item number one . Seeing
And we paid 21,000 for it and i thought myself, theyre buying a new car every year a nicer car than we have. By the way its a ford. A very nice carment they could have had that. Anyway, that is a lot of money, and when i reflect on this, think about some of the concerns that have been raised. Well what about the small investors . To me, the small investors are the people who are in the greatest need of getting advice that is in their best interests, because they dont have margin for error. And so when i hear that argument, i am i agree with the notion that small investors deserve advice, and we need to get more advice for small investors, but we need to get advice that is in their best interests. Folks who are wealthy and get conflicting at vice, thats unfortunate and wed like to prevent that but the consequences for them are less catastrophic than the family that saved 50,000 and is trying to figure out how to spend it. By the way, that small investor who has 50,000 or 100,000, the va
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
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