Recording Artists File Brief Against RIAA

Matthew Skala writes: "The Recording Artists' Coalition, which includes such luminaries as Bruce Springsteen, Don Henley, and Sheryl Crow, is still annoyed about the "Work for Hire" legislation we heard about in August 2000. They've filed a brief in the Napster cases, urging the court not to accept the RIAA's copyright registration documents as proof of ownership, because accepting the documents would allow the music cartel to sneakily destroy artists' claims to the music they recorded. They don't take a stand on other issues we might be interested in, but it's still worth thinking about. If the artists are against the RIAA, then whom exactly does the RIAA represent? Some quotes and info are on Siliconvalley.com."

Comments

Re:Who does the RIAA represent?

[tomknight]

My goodness, can you really be as stupid as you appear to be?

Remember: breathe in, breath out. That should keep you alive for a while.
Tom.

Re:RIAA Represents the Recording Industry...

[maxpublic]

Let's also take into account that it's a common slashdot misconception that deriding popular music and parroting idiotic phrases like "indy music roolz, dood!" somehow makes one intellectually superior to those folks who actually prefer the music of Britney Spears or Mandy Moore, or whoever is at the top of the charts at the moment. There's a double-standard here that those who praise independent music or small-time artists are fans of 'real' music, while those who like pop bands are just blind sheep being herded along by the RIAA.

Of course, anyone who examines this in an objective fashion for more than 30 seconds will readily see that this is nothing more than a crock of egotistical bullshit wallowed in by pseudo-intellectual pricks looking for an easy, slash-dot-approved target. Talk about sheep begging for the easy back-pat.

I don't like the RIAA or its tactics. This doesn't mean that I'm going to mindlessly mimic Joe College Student in his arrogant claims about the people who listen to pop music being drones, or support him when he raves about how much 'better' indy music is over the Top 40. When he does this, Joe College Student is nothing more than a fucking asshole pulling his own pud to puff up his ego.

Whether or not you like Britney Spears, or Mandy Moore, or whoever doesn't define intellect or musical aptitude, but simply taste. That is *all*. Some people have a taste for these folks and some don't. To say that one person's taste is somehow 'more refined' than another's is a game for nasty little children whose mothers should've slapped them upside the head more often.

Max