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I’m in the middle of writing a paper on some of the implications for freedom of contract of compulsory licensing schemes for copyrights in music. There have been a number of law review articles and book chapters recently proposing solutions to the “problem” of P2P sharing, focusing on compulsory blanket licenses. Jessica Litman, a very smart copyright scholar at Wayne State, just posted this draft of a paper outlining her solution to the issue. I’m glad to have more grist for my mill (along with papers on the same topic by Terry Fisher at Harvard and Neil Netanel at Texas), but this will cause a bit of a scramble, since I’m giving this paper on Monday. Anyway, it’s a good paper, and if you’re interested in this sort of thing, you should give it a read. I think her particular solution has some problems (which I’ll describe in my paper, which I’ll post when it’s done), but they may be fixed in a later draft.