FEBRUARY 1999
Comment: The beat goes on
Music copyright and the Internet
The future of copyright protection for recorded music may be
determined by something called MP3. Everyone agrees MP3 will change
the current state of the music industry. Some fear it will destroy
it.
Put simply, MP3 is an infringer-friendly audio format that
compresses recorded music to a digital size that can be easily
transmitted across the Internet. Using MP3, you can load a copy of
your favourite copyrighted song from a CD to your computer and send
it to your best friend or to a hundred of your best friends. Better
still, you can post it on a web site where everyone in the world
can get a copy ... for free.
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