Sunday, December 10, 2006

RIAA Petitions to Lower Songwriter Royalties

Despite its frequent protestations that it is seeking to shut down p2p file sharing in order to protect the 'artists', the RIAA has petitioned to reduce songwriter royalties for digital music:

http://gear.ign.com/articles/749/749883p1.html

Additional commentary & discussion:

Slashdot
Engadget
punknews.org


* Document published online at Internet Law & Regulation

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2 comments:

  1. Alter_FritzDecember 10, 2006 at 12:30:00 PM EST

    one possible reason why the evil riaa is doing this could be what I have already expressed in a comment over there;

    http://p2pnet.net/index.php?page=comment&story=10687&comment=131304


    Another great read is his newest piece;

    http://p2pnet.net/story/10700

    Lets hope some judges read that too!

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  2. raybeckermanDecember 10, 2006 at 6:44:00 PM EST

    There's only one reason they do anything. Here's the secret code for it:

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