Copyrights and Legal Issues
Copyright law is in a seriously weird place right now in the United States and some other countries as well. The rights of copyright owners keep getting extended, while fair use is taking a beating, and minor infringements are escalated into major crimes. Creators are pushed out as the rights holders to their own works, though that is an old, chronic problem. As Courtney Love said in “Courtney Love Does the Math”:
. . . a congressional aide named Mitch Glazier, with the support of the RIAA, added a “technical amendment” to a bill that defined recorded music as “works for hire” under the 1978 Copyright Act.
He did this after all the hearings on the bill were over. By the time artists found out about the change, it was ...
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