RIAA Wants Songwriter Royalty Lowered

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Lest there be anyone left who believes the RIAA's propaganda that its litigation campaign is intended to benefit the 'creators' of the music, Hollywood Reporter reports that the RIAA is asking the Copyright Royalty Board to lower songwriter royalties on song file downloads, from the present rate of 9 cents per song — about 13% of the wholesale price — down to 8% of wholesale. Meanwhile, the big digital music companies, such as Apple, want the royalty rate lowered even more, to something like 4% of wholesale. So any representations by any of these companies that they are concerned for the 'creators' of the music must henceforth be taken with a boxcar-load of salt."

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Re:Why the RIAA?

[cliffski]

Insane. You think that a trade body that represents the majority of the USAs musical entertainers is as bad as a gang of violent thugs that killed and physically assaulted people.
Nobody who is not part of the slashdot/digg groupthink will EVER take anything you say about copyright seriously.