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In this clip from a 2007 American Bar Association Forum titled “Legal and Business Issues in the New Internet World of User Generated Content & Social Networking,” the panelists discuss an audience question about what a just statutory rate might be for the non-interactive use of online content, and whether letting the US Congress set such a rate is a reasonable way to address the current mess that is the online content licensing process today. They also discuss: why music often seems to be treated as a special case to be considered apart from all other types of online content; why YouTube can’t use humans to filter copyrighted content the way they do to filter pornographic content; and what the future of sync licenses for music content looks like.