RIAA tells Hitpiece lawyer “Your clients’ outright theft of these valuable intellectual property rights is as outrageous as it is brazen.”
Press Release: @RIAA Moves Against Hitpiece — Music Technology Policy
A host of organizations have come together to create MusicCovidRelief.com, a website that explains the ins and outs of the CARE Act, the pandemic relief bill.
Spend some time on the site and learn about the many cash resources made available by the historic legislation. The good news is that self employed and small business can take advantage of funds, but move quickly because the funds are available on a first-come first-served basis.
Big thanks to RIAA for putting this together so quickly. Visit MusicCovidRelief.com to know what’s on offer. You may also find the return of the Carte Musique to be of interest as in this post from Chris that is getting uptake in some policy circles it limits the purchasing power to tracks bought from a local retailer. Again–Carte Musique cannot be used at Amazon but can be used to buy directly from a participating store. The Carte could be cosponsored by big brands even for tours with tour branding.
In fact, when the lawsuit was first announced, The Trichordist rather humorously (though not at all facetiously) announced an “office betting pool” as to how soon the Electronic Frontier Foundation would file an amicus brief on behalf of Aurous. And while no serious IP attorney may reasonably defend Aurous against the infringement claims, that hasn’t stopped the EFF from repeating the latest mantra of Internet industry defenders: That [insert plaintiff here] is behaving as though SOPA became law. Although the EFF has not filed an amicus brief or anything so official on behalf of Aurous, here’s the tweet they sent out, as Ellen Seidler reports on Vox Indie:
Once again, @RIAA asks a court to order the entire world to block & filter an app they don’t like. https://t.co/Qwg138pFPB#SOPApower
While, all this SOPA chatter may be pretty good spin—and a great way to belabor the narrative that rights holders are just insidious, draconian, evildoers hating on freedom—the references to SOPA are entirely specious. I mean not even close.
Bottom Line: Aurous is a Domestic Business
SOPA/PIPA were exclusively written to target foreign-based piracy sites that are beyond the reach of U.S. jurisdiction for criminal proceedings, with the objective of starving these sites of both U.S. traffic and U.S. revenue.
READ THE FULL POST AT THE ILLUSION OF MORE:
http://illusionofmore.com/aurous-nothing-to-do-with-sopa/
Whatever the reason, it’s bullshit. The major labels were right not to compromise with Napster. I was VP of Electronic Music Distribution at Sony Music at the time, dealing with these issues day to day. Understandably, some people may think, what does it matter if the majors were right or not? They lost. But I think its important to understand the various facets and history of these events, if only to provide perspective for issues the industry is still dealing with today. So, at the risk of being unhip, here are Five Reasons Why The Major Labels Didn’t Blow It With Napster.
READ THE FULL POST AT HYPEBOT:
http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2015/05/five-reasons-the-major-labels-didnt-blow-it-with-napster.html
The Trichordist 
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