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The Music Industry Is Begging the US Government To Change Its Copyright Laws (theverge.com)
An anonymous reader shares an article on The Verge: Christina Aguilera, Katy Perry, deadmau5, and dozens of other musicians are asking the U.S. government to revamp the Digital Millennium Copyright act (DMCA), the piece of law that governs access to copyrighted work on the internet. Musicians, managers, and "creators" from across the industry co-signed petitions sent to the U.S. Copyright Office arguing that tech companies -- think YouTube and Tumblr, sites with vast reserves of content that infringes on some copyright -- have "grown and generated huge profits" on the backs of material that's illegally hosted. "The growth and support of technology companies should not be at the expense of artists and songwriters," reads the letter signed by Aguilera, Perry, and their peers. "The tech companies who benefit from the DMCA today were not the intended protectorate when it was signed into law two decades ago."
They want people to pay for background music on tv, streaming, sporting events, movies and more. And to have auto take downs expand.
People did *exactly* that. Guess what? Did not work. Those guys got their own special system setup in the big providers. You don't think they were suing them because they wanted money do you? They wanted special access to set the rules as laid out by law for them.
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"Irony is Deadmau5 signing this bullshit...."
What makes you think that he signed it?
All we have up to now is the RIAA assertion that he did.
This is a quote supposedly from the "Artists":
“The next generation of creators may be silenced if the economics don’t justify a career in the music industry,”
Now go ahead, Google it. I got 7 results, all of them quoting the RIAA Press release.
Why, on this particular subject, is Slashdot collectively willing to believe _anything_ stated as fact by the RIAA, with _zero_ documentation?