The Association Of Independent Music has published a new report on copyright in the digital age, which essentially revisits that previously reported paper on the future of music copyright published in 2006, and represents some of AIM's opinions on new fangled ways of licensing music on the net in the context of licensing discussions that have begun as a result of the much previously reported government published Gowers Report on copyright law.
The paper covers all kinds of copyright type stuff, though much attention is sure to fall on AIM's opinion on the main copyright debate of the moment - the legalisation of private copying (or so called format shifting) and the introduction, or not, of a levy or licence in return for allowing that legitimisation - even though AIM's opinion is the same as the Music Business Group, to whom the indie trade body is affiliated, and who launched their viewpoint on the matter last month.
You can download the paper at this URL:
http://www.musicindie.com/254.asp?sub=General%2520Resources