Maria Cantwell: “The Blackburn Cantwell bill, like the copied act basically…”

“So the Wall Street Journal needs to be there and the Seattle Times needs to be there. And what we would like to see is some of the things like The Blackburn Cantwell bill, like the copied act basically says that you have to have both consent and compensation to copy news information. Yet that's not what's happening online right now. You basically have a lot of the basic advertising revenue being eaten away by local broadcasters.” (03:04–03:15)

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