Mercy is not for the vanquished to command.
[snip] he Department of Justice just finished a more than two-year review of the ASCAP and BMI antitrust consent decrees,[snip]
From what we know today about the corrupt DOJ, that statement is supposed to carry any weight? I would submit they have just opened a box that they wanted to stay closed. Sessions should have one of his deputies look into everything about this sometime down the road and let them hang in the wind.
“Music Rights? What the heck is a music right?
It’s not the donations, but the cronyism Trump will address if he chooses.
A Trump DOJ should prosecute “music” companies, writers, producers, performers, licensing organizations, distributors, and retailers for the toxic filth they fire hose on our society and directly into the brains of American youth.
Trump’s presidential transition team met with dozens of tech, telecom, and media representatives Friday, but according to several people familiar with the meeting, team Trump offered little insight into the Republican Presidential candidate’s view on tech policy. .... Representatives from Google, Uber, and Twitter attended the meeting. They were joined by trade and advocacy groups including the Consumer Technology Association, the Information Technology Industry Council and the Internet Association. About 50 people attended the off-the-record meeting, which took place at the offices of the law firm Baker Hostetler, in Washington, DC. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and AT&T were also represented .
In the first place, this isn't about "technology policy" e.g. science and technology for the betterment of the people. This is about intellectual property protection, a lot of which is pushed by patent and copy-right "trolls."
This article is exactly why we launched a nuclear Trump to irradiate and sterilize the swamp. The attendees at this meeting would be a good start. They don't want less regulation. They are the guys who want more regulation that benefit THEM.
They are going to pay a price.
Trump is taking names.
There will be payback.
In the long run that’s the only way to put a stop
to this insane sh**. Make the perpetrators (finally)
pay a price.
That is a truly concise assessment.
For myself, I think that copyright continues on far, far too long. IMHO, pretty much anything over 50 years old should pass into the public domain. Yeah, that includes Beatles songs.
I don't see why not, she'd already put the foreign policy of the United States up for sale. But they may have to wait a bit, because Trump has a lot bigger issues on his plate at the moment.
What he needs to do is push congress to return copyright law to it’s initial 14 year term for registered works, with a possible single extension of 14 years.. That would make most of this crap moot, as there would be a huge catalog of public domain stuff available that people could use. That would put the screws on BMI and ASCAP to be reasonable.
Recall on the beginning of every DVD, the notice that the FBI investigates copyright violations?
How many federal officers are assigned to investigate copyright violations, pirating of recordings, etc? How much DOJ resources are spent on the behalf of this effort?
What happens to the industry’s bottom line if every single federal person is re-assigned to investigate vote fraud instead?