Word: label
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...MP3.com, at least, always wanted to be more than that, namely a mini-record label with minimal marketing costs. That's how Byrds founder Roger McGuinn was offered "an unheard-of, non-exclusive recording contract with a royalty rate of 50 percent of the gross sales," McGuinn told the committee in defense of the web music revolution. "I was delighted by this youthful and uncommonly fair approach...
...label approach doesn't play fast and loose with copyright laws. Napster's "directory" model sure does, even if the company claims the fault lies with users, not itself. David Boies, once the government's lead lawyer against Microsoft and now representing Napster against Big Music, wasn't there to tell the committee how he plans to find enough loopholes in the laws to keep Napster from getting stomped by the RIAA...
...house...It was certainly not my understanding that they were fund-raising events... Well, I never heard [the coffees] described as fund-raising tools. Again I've described what I felt that their role was. And as to whether I agree or disagree with somebody else's label being placed on it, I hesitate to wordsmith it. I would not call them fund-raising tools...
...trapped in 1993, they're also chock-full of carcinogens. As if you needed another reason not to smoke cigars (aren't you tired of the Monica Lewinsky jokes yet?), the Federal Trade Commission announced Monday that it is cracking down on manufacturers, ordering them to clearly label every cigar package and advertisement with a big, decidedly unhip label...
...other hand, the custom of treating succession as a birthright obviously goes way beyond countries that actually label themselves monarchies. The other ruler-by-inheritance in the news lately is Kim Jong Il of North Korea. He didn't have to go through any of that nonsense either...