”Public Knowledge [PK] urges the Copyright Office to consider...

"Public Knowledge [PK] urges the Copyright Office to consider tools” like “sustainable statutory licenses and reasonable collective licensing to encourage new market entrants while ensuring artists are compensated for their work,” said Jodie Griffin, PK senior staff attorney, in a release (http://bit.ly/TR797r) Tuesday highlighting PK’s comments (http://bit.ly/Ry9qSX) for the office’s music licensing study, which were due Friday. “Antitrust oversight is vital to the functioning of a mass market in music,” and “there is a continuing need for mass market licenses,” said the release. “The blatant abuse of market power means negotiations between ‘Willing Buyers and Willing Sellers'” isn’t feasible, it said. “The monopoly power of copyright gives the rights holders the ability to dominate, control or extinguish new distribution models,” it said.