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32 Music Companies Have Publicly Supported SOPA. And 2 Have Opposed It...
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Digital Music News
Here's a list of music companies that have taken public positions supporting SOPA. That support frequently takes the form of open letters to various Congressional members or the media, a list tracked by non-profit Washington watchdog MapLight.org. Among other things, MapLight tracks Congressional influence and contributions across a wide range of sectors and bills.
If you know of other music-specific groups publicly supporting or opposing SOPA that are not on this list, please let us know. And thanks to proptone.com ...
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Breaking: The White House Speaks out Against SOPA...
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Digital Music News
Internet piracy is a serious problem, but the White House now says SOPA simply goes too far. “While we believe that online piracy by foreign websites is a serious problem that requires a serious legislative response, we will not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk, or undermines the dynamic, innovative global Internet," leaders from the Obama Administration officially responded Saturday morning on whitehouse.gov. “We must avoid creating new cybersecurity risks or disrupting the underlying architecture of ...
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Is Music Piracy the Problem... or the Solution?
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HypeBot
Yesterday in a comment left on one of Hypebot's Best of 2011 articles, one reader expressed a viewpoint that ending piracy is the #1 route to a professional career in the music industry. They went on to say: “You can't have jobs where there's no money. People who aspire to professional careers need to learn who is robbing them of those opportunities." While it's clear by now that piracy has caused the music industry as a whole to lose a substantial ...
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Rightsflow Acquired by Google...
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Digital Music News
The deal is sealed, and it looks like the initial focus is YouTube. That's according to initial details tipped by Rightsflow president & CEO Patrick Sullivan this morning, who seemed enthused by the development. With the ink dried, Google now has a shiny, new royalty backend processing company that will solve a lot of compensation headaches. Rights have been a big part—or problem—in the growing Google Music property, and YouTube is arguably one of the biggest nodes for music consumption ...
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Everything You Need to Know About SOPA and the New Copyfight
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HypeBot
You may have heard rumblings and grumblings about a Senate bill that would “effectively destroy“ YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Google+, and any other service that lets people post things on the internet. If a “directory, index, reference, pointer, or hypertext link" is found to distribute content without permission, the PROTECT IP Act (.pdf) [its House equivalent is SOPA, short for the Stop Online Piracy Act] would allow copyright owners or the Attorney General to sue for the deletion of that ...
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Danish Anti-Piracy Group: "The Market Will Die if Grooveshark Continues..."
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Digital Music News
If you want to dismantle Grooveshark, then you'll probably need to dismantle the DMCA as well. Or, you can try this: in Denmark, anti-piracy group RettighedsAlliancen is now demanding that ISPs block Grooveshark, and pushing that demand through the local court system. That closely follows a similar action against the Pirate Bay in the region, an approach also being adopted in the UK. This is still a developing situation. Early this morning, Grooveshark SVP Paul Geller told Digital Music News ...
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"Record Companies Keep Lists of Works Exploited... for Which Royalties Have Not Been Paid"
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Digital Music News
If you're signed to a major label, you might want to look away. This is from a class action lawsuit filed against the major labels in Canada, alleging non-payment of royalties on compilation releases. The initial claim was filed in 2008 for $50 million, and ultimately settled this year for $45 million. The defendant labels were found to be systematically releasing compilations for years without paying artists, while also keeping details lists of those uses and who they weren't paying. ...
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Hillary Clinton Says Anti-Piracy and Internet Freedoms Are "Mutually Consistent..."
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Digital Music News
Can you clamp down on piracy, without clamping down on free speech and internet freedoms? In a recent letter sent to Representative Howard Berman (D-California), Secretary of State Hilary Rodham Clinton offered her strong support, while underscoring that “internet freedoms" and “intellectual property protections" were “mutually consistent."
Berman is a co-sponsor of the tough Stop Online Theft Act, the strongest anti-piracy bill yet. The letter, stamped October 25th, was shared with Digital Music News this morning.
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