How Years Of Copyright Maximalism Is Now Killing Pop Music | Techdirt

peter.suber's bookmarks 2020-01-13

Summary:

"Almost five years ago, we warned that years of copyright maximalists brainwashing the public about ever expansive copyright and the need for everything to be "owned" had resulted in the crazy Blurred Lines decision that said that merely being inspired by another artist to make a song that has a similar feel, even if it doesn't copy any actual part of the music, was infringing. We warned that this would lead to bad things -- and it has.

Over the last few years, we've been detailing story after story of similar cases being filed. It's become so common that we don't even bother to write about most of the cases. As we've said, though, this really is the industry reaping what they've sowed. It's gotten so crazy that even the RIAA (yes, that RIAA) has felt the need to tell courts that maybe their interpretation of copyright has gone too far in the direction of over-protecting copyright holders.

It's now become such a fact of life that the NY Times has a giant article on how copyright is basically eating pop music these days. ..."

Link:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200108/16390543702/how-years-copyright-maximalism-is-now-killing-pop-music.shtml

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Date tagged:

01/13/2020, 13:13

Date published:

01/13/2020, 08:13