[BC] Where did the RIAA go off the track?

[IBSHQ@aol.com]

RIAA, Recording Industry Association of America, is controlled by four giant 
music companies, SONY-BMG, EMI Recorded Music, Universal Music Group, and 
Warner Music Group (AOL).? Most of these four companies are foreign controlled. ? 
Together they act as a music monopoly/oligopoly.?

SoundExchange is a RIAA wholly owned corporation. 

The problem is the DMCA Law of 1998 largely written by RIAA and their 
lobbyists.

In the early 1990s the monopoly music companies saw the sharing, over the 
Internet, of "perfect" digital copies of their music as a growing threat to their 
monopoly, cash flow, and control of the music industry.   RIAA, according to 
their website, controls over 90% of commercial music sales in the USA.

In 1995 the persuaded Congress to pass the Sound Recordings Act.   In 1998 
RIAA successfully lobbied for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). 

Copyright Laws come from Section 8 of the US Constitution.  Specifically the 
US Constitution says (Congress shall pass laws):

"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited 
Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective 
Writings and Discoveries"????

If you feel it is more important to promote the progress of science (Internet 
- Webcast) than to protect, RIAA, not specially protected by the 
Constitution, as are ASCAP/BMI, but instead protected by DMCA, then YOU have to persuade 
Congress to amend DMCA.

Fritz Kass - Intercollegiate Broadcasting System (IBS)
????? www.collegeradio.tv


In a message dated 4/17/07 6:26:10 PM, brscomm at charter.net writes:


> The same way the FCC went from a technical regulatory agency to controlling
> content and wardrobe malfunctions...
> 
> Bill
> 




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