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The EFF has released this white paper proposing a voluntary collective licensing scheme for music downloads. It’s a very smart paper, and I have no real criticisms of the proposal.

My lack of criticisms isn’t terribly surprising. If you compare the EFF white paper with this paper of mine, you’ll see that their proposal is similar to mine, except that the EFF paper proposes a private system and I don’t speak to the public/private question, since it doesn’t really make any difference to the substantive aspects of my proposal. It seems to me that a private system is the more likely result in the end, though the specter of Congressional intervention may be needed to move things along.