GRE阅读练习：泰勒斯威夫特版权大战.docxVIP

Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 GRE阅读练习：泰勒斯威夫特版权大战 GRE考试模拟：GRE阅读练习：泰勒斯威夫特版权大战 GRE考试精品课程训练  YouTube and copyright——Free and easy listening  YouTube涉及版权问题：免费自在地听音乐  The music industry lobbies ConGREss to keep YouTube at bay.  音乐产业游说国会远离YouTube.  IN LOVE or in business, it is not a good idea to be on the wrong side of Taylor Swift.  无论从个人喜好还是从经营商业的角度，与泰勒·斯威夫特对着干都不是一个好主意。  She has slated ex-boyfriends in her songs.  毕竟她经常用歌曲抨击她的前任男友。  And last year she publicly criticized Apple Music’s plan not to pay artists during the streaming service’s launch period. Apple quickly relented.  去年，她公开批评苹果音乐在流媒体服务发布期间没有向音乐人支付费用的行为。苹果公司很快就举手投降。  Now Ms Swift has joined nearly 200 musicians and record labels in a campaign aimed at the largest streaming service, YouTube.  如今斯威夫特加入一个由将近200名音乐人和唱片公司发起的运动，该项运动直指最 大的流媒体服务商YouTube。  They complain that it gives away too much of their work for free.  他们抱怨YouTube 免费发布太多他们的作品。  Their call for a change in copyright law is sure to fail, but the underlying gripe with Google’s streaming service will find sympathetic ears.  尽管他们要求版权法做出改变的提议注定失败，但是对于谷歌流媒体服务的潜在抱怨还是引起人们的同情。  Streaming of music via on-demand video services more than doubled in America last year, to172.4 billion songs, according to Nielsen, a research firm.  根据一家名叫尼尔森公司的调查显示，去年在美国通过视频点播服务产生的流媒体音乐超过了原有的两倍，达到1724亿首歌曲。  Ms Swift, Sir Paul McCartney, U2 and others signed a letter, published in several Washington periodicals on June 20th, asking Congress to make it more difficult and costly for those streaming services to hostversions of songs uploaded by users.  6月20日华盛顿斯的几家期刊登出斯威夫特，保罗·麦卡特尼，U2和其他音乐人的联名信。信上要求国会将流媒体服务和用户下载大量版本的歌曲变得更加困难和昂贵。  Google and Facebook, among others, will vigorously oppose any change to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which grants them “safe harbour” from liability for copyright infringement.  在反对数字千年著作权法案做出任何改变的互联网公司中，谷歌和脸书的反对最为强烈，因为该法案是使他们不用承担版权侵权的“安全