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June 20, 2016

What Is the Internet Creators Guild? — Artist Rights Watch

Google’s response to the artist rights movement has been to form organizations of their own through proxies. The Internet Creators Guild looks to be another pillar of Google’s cynical PR campaign against artists.

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