Civil-Liberties Group Fights Proposal On Web User Data
Calling it "an unprecedented invasion of listener privacy," civil-liberties group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is asking the U.S Copyright Office to amend a proposal under which Internet radio broadcasters would collect data on users. EFF says the Copyright Office has required that Webcasters track users' country of origin, local time zone, and a unique identifier, among other information. The data would be given to copyright-holders as part of royalty obligations under review by the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel.
The policy will "drive smaller Webcasters off the Internet by enforcing the expense of tracking 25 pieces of information for every song they broadcast," says EFF senior intellectual property lawyer Fred von Lohmann in a statement. A representative of the Copyright Office could not be reached.
The RIAA says it is dropping a request for the listener log. "We look forward to working with Webcasters on having these reasonable regulations adopted," says Steven Marks, senior VP of business and legal affairs, in a statement.
The policy will "drive smaller Webcasters off the Internet by enforcing the expense of tracking 25 pieces of information for every song they broadcast," says EFF senior intellectual property lawyer Fred von Lohmann in a statement. A representative of the Copyright Office could not be reached.
The RIAA says it is dropping a request for the listener log. "We look forward to working with Webcasters on having these reasonable regulations adopted," says Steven Marks, senior VP of business and legal affairs, in a statement.
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