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The DOJ deals a devastating blow to professional songwriters
"Last week, however, under Assistant Attorney General Renata Hesse (a former Wilson Sonsini attorney -- Google’s law firm), the DOJ announced that, going forward, it intends to interpret the Consent Decrees to require ASCAP and BMI to only issue licenses for songs they control 100%, up-ending decades of custom and practice." By Savan Kotecha. (July 20, 2016)
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It has always been about the publishers, the gatekeepers, never about the actual creators.
Corporations are more important than individuals.
Corporations are the only real people, real individuals. Humans are just consumers.
That's the essence of Capitalism.
No, no, no... they are individuals, very important ones.