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When I became chairman of the Judiciary Committee,
I had the recognition that the copyright laws

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of this country had not been updated in any
significant way in more than 40 years.

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And, so, we took a comprehensive review of
all of our copyright laws.

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We found that the most complicated area and
the most contentious but also, by far the

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most in need of reform was in the area of
music copyright law.