Toby, Your outline of the lobbying landscape is exactly right. Other constituencies affected by these developments are welcome to do their own lobbying, although it would seem most have chosen not to, or have not done so very effectively. The loudest voice gets heard.
I have only been following this sporadically, but I thought there was a difference between the existing broadcast royalty framework and the rules for internet use. I thought broadcast royalties compensated only the composer/publisher group, while the internet structure also extended, in whole or part, to the performers/recording companies. I could be wrong, but that might explain RIAA's interest in the latter and not in the former. The development of new media forms has caused havoc with many creative interest groups - witness the Hollywood writers strike some months back where one of the gripes was over residual payments for new distribution forms. Hopefully it gets resolved without destroying or severely handicapping the participants. I'm not going to be baited by my friend who seems to simply like to argue, with or without an understanding of the topic. He doesn't seem to understand what trade groups do. RIAA represents its members, not other constituencies. The fact that he recognizes that they speak for their sponsors, are well funded, and have been effective in getting what they want, is nothing more than an acknowledgement they are doing their job. -- Goodsounds ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Goodsounds's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14201 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51180 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
