Public Knowledge’s Meredith Rose explains the Music Modernization Act

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 2 October 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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The Music Modernization Act has passed Congress and now sits on President Trump’s desk, awaiting his signature. The bill is years in the making, a much needed solution to the complicated collision of music streaming services, licensing issues, and copyright law. For this week’s interview episode of The Vergecast, Nilay sat down with Meredith Rose, Policy Counsel at Public Knowledge, a consumer advocacy group. They talked about how the Music Modernization Act will help artists get paid, companies license music, and how new streaming services might compete with giants like Spotify. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:13.3	Hey everybody, it's Neilife from The Vertchcast.
0:15.6	This week on our interview episode, I talk to Meredith Rose, who is Policy Council at
0:20.2	Public Knowledge.
0:21.2	It's a Consumer Advocates Group.
0:23.0	They just participated in passing a bill with Congress called the Music Modernization
0:27.0	Act.
0:28.0	He's sitting on President Trump's desk right now.
0:30.0	He's probably going to sign it.
0:31.0	It's a really big deal.
0:32.3	So I was a lawyer before.
0:34.2	We've had other lawyers work at The Vertch over the years.
0:37.2	And the one thing that is consistently the most confusing about how digital platforms
0:42.6	in network is music law.
0:45.0	It's just baffling layers of inscrutability and laws about player pianos and sending
0:51.6	physical notices in the mail that doesn't line up with how the internet works at all or
0:57.1	how you would think it should work.
0:59.0	The Music Modernization Act is years in the making.
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