A few made big bucks, the rest were screwed. Strangely enough, Courtney Love did a very interesting write up on this subject.
A bit long, but worth the time to read.
Courtney Love does the math
Last November, 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 too late. The bill was on its way to the White House for the president’s signature.
http://www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/
Just three months after Glazier put this language into the bill, which everyone admits was suggested to him by the RIAA, he was hired by the RIAA to a job with a half a million dollar salary. He remains at the RIAA to this day, where he’s currently the number two guy.
Sure glad Cruz helped get this thing passed.
Copyright as it is now only serves monopolistic corporations, most of them on the far left. Newt Gingrich had it right when he said he was against SOPA (another failed attempt to impose draconian penalties on file sharing) because the liberal media that supported it were no friends to conservatives.
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2. Club For Growth fervently supports TPP.
3. Club For Growth has (so far) donated over $700,000 to the Cruz campaign.
Don't forget what NAFTA did to us:
NAFTA was simply economic permission to crush U.S. tariffs, so huge companies could produce products overseas for embarrassingly low wages and then import the pieces back into the U.S. either whole or for assembly, without paying previously-imposed tariffs. Wages and environmental regulations were laughable, though many companies have now fled Mexico in favor of even lower wages and virtually no pollution standards in third-world countries.