Are The Record Labels Using Bluebeat's Bogus Copyright Defense T...

Courtesy Techdirt  Thu, 11/19/2009 - 07:33

As you hopefully know, back in 1999, the RIAA had a Congressional staffer named Mitch Glazier slip four words into a totally unrelated bill on satellite retransmission of broadcast TV, literally in the middle of the night, that effectively changed the way copyrights worked on songs by major label artists.

It effectively took much of the control out of the hands of the artists and handed it right to the labels.

Remember that the next time the record labels...

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