September 30, 2003
House to Vote on CARP Revision Bill
So I was wondering about legislative process reform and came upon this, from kurthanson.com (via Joseph Lorenzo Hall on the dig-copyright mailing list):
“A bill intended to reform the copyright arbitration process known as CARP has passed the House Judiciary Committee, and will next go to the full House of Representatives for a vote.”
“H.R. 1417, the ‘Copyright Royalty and Distribution Reform Act,’ addresses criticism that the current CARP system is unnecessarily expensive, that arbitrators often lack the necessary expertise to render fair decisions, and that CARP decisions tend to be inconsistent and unpredictable. It was this system that produced the widely-panned Internet webcast royalty determination in February of 2002.”
Go to Thomas for more. See here and here for prior discussion.
Filed by Derek Slater at 10:56 pm under General news
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