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Hilary Rosen Will Step Down As RIAA Head
Phoenix666 writes "NYT Business reports Hilary Rosen is leaving. Question is, what head will spring from the Hydra next? Could this signal a shift in the RIAA's tactics? The article reports 'Rosen's departure comes as the organization sought to soften its image among Internet consumers, many of whom viewed the RIAA -- and Rosen personally -- with antipathy over incessant pressure for crackdowns on sharing digital music over the Internet.'" A press release on the RIAA site says that Rosen will leave at the end of this year.
Why are you all celebrating already? It doesn't take effect until the end of the year. Until then nothing important will change in the RIAA.
After she leaves? Nothing will change then either.
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or wait until tomorrow for the online article. This is an interview on her which was an interesting read. Here's what the Web site said:
Hating Hilary [Coming Jan. 23]
Napster slayer. Corporate thug. Industry shill. Hilary Rosen has heard it all as the reviled frontwoman for the music biz. Sure, she knows file-sharing is the future. She's just fighting to give the dinosaurs one last gasp.
By Matt Bai
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
I hate to remind everyone but it is still January of 2003... which means she will be around for awhile still.
FYI: The cost of a legally licensed music CD here in SE Asia is around 9 dollars--Yes, nine.
Mod me up for being redundant if you will, but if the recording industry can sell music CDs here in Asia for $9 and still make a profit, why can't they do the same in the US?
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The story can be found here.
Rosen essentially wants ISP's to pay a fee to the RIAA to compensate for the loss of revenues due to piracy across the net. She would also like to see the ISP's begin scanning P2P type files being swapped on the net for pirated works.
The successor for Rosen will undoubtedly try to take a more subtle approach. Essentially, we'll be seeing the equivalent of the "Softer Side of RIAA" advertisements. I would implore the Slashdot community to see through the new image to the cold, black, evil that is the essence of the RIAA (and MPAA). Hopefully, Rosen doesn't live in Salem lest she run the risk of being burned at the stake!
To know is to have knowledge....to understand is to be enlightened.
....same as the Old Boss.
Let's assume that Elvis, rich as he was, never sold his copyrights on both his lyrics and his performance. He died in 1977. Assuming that there's no more extensions to copyright again (which is entirely possible, given the recent outcry), Elvis won't enter the Public Domain until 2067--so you've got sixty four _more_ years to wait.
/did/ sell his copyrights, it would still be the same expiration date. Transferral doesn't change how long they last -- it's only if a corporation is the *original* holder of a copyright that the 95-year hardlimit applies.
Even if he
And in some measure it *is* the CTEA (aka the Sony Bono act) and its predecessors that keep Elvis off the PD slate, since they revized how long "basic copyright law" keeps works away from the public.
actually the copyright laws have been extended to nearly a century because of a recent lawsuit involving disney and a couple of other corporations that had the problem of their copyrights running out. the story can be found here http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/01/15/scotus.copyright s.ap/
"Hating the RIAA's Hilary Rosen" - Wired Article