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Director logical 10 21 said the union had made an offer tonight to bart. The gm of bart she is here tonight. So is george cull license the head of the federal mediation service. Appointed by president obama to settle this dispute. Bart last best final offer was a 12 percent raise over 4 years. Union members also have to contribute more for Health Pension benefits but tonight again the yawn came back with counteroffer. We still have to decide about the different things. Still bargaining still talk. Doing everything we can to try to get to resolution that fell good about bringing to our members....

Right now time is running out for bart and union to strike a teal that would keep trains running tomorrow mornin morning. We are an hour away from the midnight deadline and minutes ago 81 gave bart a counter proposal. Good evening. We have Live Team Coverage for you tonight. Lets get rate to john who is in oakland where the negotiations are taking place. John . And anticipation building for whatever is going to happen tonight whether it is a settlement or a strike. Some Union Members gather here outside the caltrans building in oakland where negotiations are still going on. Few minutes ago the...

Respect to a Music Production industry after the turn of the century, its no longer necessary and unjust few blee aggregates copyright owners rights today. Fortunately, legislation has been introduced to begin to address this and i thank members of the subcommittee for supporting the songwriters equity act. Public performance royalties represent the large income for song writers. Its inherently a free market right. Its not regulated by law. But because the department of justice imposed consent degrees in 1941, incredibly, those decrees are still in effect today. They do not sunset. Under these...

Inconsistencies and injustices is our performing artists receive absolutely no compensation when their music is played over the air on terrestrial, meaning a. M. fm radio. Congress required payment when sound recordings are transmitted digitally and 95 but have yet to extend its basic protection to artists when their songs are played down after more a. M. Radio. This is incredibly on just. The bottom line is that terrestrial radio profits from intellectual property of recording on this for free. I am aware of no other instance in the United States for this is allowed, and it needs to be remedi...

See mr. Griffin you may want to pull the mic a little closer to you. [inaudible] is this better . I guess i have two minutes to repeat a lot of it. I will go very quickly here for you and just to repeat that my name is jim griffin and i am the panels heat the panels geek. Immediate technologist here. Excuse me sir we heard it clearly. See then that is just fine by me area the fourth key point that im going to make is that we need globally unique identifiers no less than a bank check or a credit card. We have to have a number for each song and each book, each thing that we are trying to track. ...