It appears you're trying to be balanced, but if you invert everything you wrote, that would be mostly the truth. Disney actually decides what copyright law is,

It appears you're trying to be balanced, but if you invert everything you wrote, that would be mostly the truth. Disney actually decides what copyright law is, not Congress or other rights holders. Currently, if a small song copyright owner doesn't cross every "t", a commercial organization just keeps their royalties until the small owner sues, wins and has each corporation add an entry in their database of owners. They still won't get back royalties, but they will get future - years later, of course. I don't see any complaint by the Senator for that behavior. The only owner that has substantial rights and the ability to collect at this point is the songwriter, because they have powerful laws in their favor. The performers are lucky to get anything, really, from any streaming platform, including Youtube. And corporations who aggregate performance revenue collection, and "forget" to cut a check to the actual owners. (No practical penalty for not paying the artist.) What I tell songwriters is to register your songs with Songtrust and DistroKid, and don't sign anything with anybody else. Actually, give the corporate lawyers the finger, since their whole goal is to steal from the artists. https://www.songtrust.com/ https://www.songtrust.com/ https://techcrunch.com/2013/10/10/philip-kaplan-officially-launches-distrokid-a-cheap-efficient-way-to-distribute-lots-of-music/ https://techcrunch.com/2013/10/10/philip-kaplan-officially-l...