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Edison to Hillary Rosen - Parts 3, 4 and 5

Posted by michael on from the what's-old-is-new-again dept.

An anonymous reader writes "MP3newswire.net has the follow up to the first two chapters of its series "Thomas Edison, Intellectual Property and the Recording Industry". These articles show that the controllers of the media bullied folk back then as they do now - and it didn't work. The last installments of the 5 part series include; Chapter 3 -- The Industry Evolves, Chapter 4 -- Copyright and the Grand Illusion, and closes with Chapter 5 -- Bringing the Past Into the Present"

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  1. Re:Can't RTFA by Ankle · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just go to the links with a good ol' proxy: http://proxy.technikality.com/ Works wonders for being at school/work.

  2. Re:Can't RTFA by bobbozzo · · Score: 4, Informative

    Looks like Google has most of them cached

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  3. you realize, of course by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    that most of the text on slashdot is displayed in whatever your browser's default is.

  4. Re:Misinformed by Trollificus · · Score: 2, Informative
    "Songwriters own "the words" and or "the music." Artists own whatever performance rights their contract allows them to keep; labels own their recordings. That's it."

    One common misconception about the recording industry is that the band doesn't make any money off CD sales. Well, that is only partially true. The songwriters are the ones who make the big bucks. If your name is at the top of the song, you're raking in more than the musicians who played the instruments in on the CD.

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