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Jerry Nadler: “It is often said that if we started from scratch, nobody would write the law as it stands today.”

On the recordJune 9, 2014
It is often said that if we started from scratch, nobody would write the law as it stands today.
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Jerry Nadler
Democratic · New York

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Nadler critiques the current state of music copyright law.

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