As a good opportunity to get some more verified information on this whole
universal thing, I though that I would mention that I am in my second year of
law school here at the University of Michigan, and the head attorney for
Universal will be speaking in my copyright class this coming monday. If anyone
has any particular questions that they would like to have me pose, I can always
do my best to do so.

Also, as just a general inquiry, I know that there is a tremendous amount of
music out there that has fallen out of print. It seems to me that if there is
a productive use for peer to peer technology for the labels (major or indie),
it would be to utilize an apple i-tune like service to capture the value of out
of print catalogues. For a lot of these sources, there is a definite demand
for the product (albeit limited in some, if not most instances-obviously out of
print for a reason), but the labels are not interested in keeping it in print
due to the cost and the lack of return on their investment. It seems to me
that this would be a fairly cost effective way for labels to capture this value
while preventing things form falling out of print. Comments, concerns? Anyone
have any data on the amount of material currently out of print and tied up by
major label work for hire status?

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