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Am I the only one that finds it hard to engage with the RIAA as good faith actors? It feels similar to patent trolls whose business strategy is simply to lever
by kristopolous 3y ago
Am I the only one that finds it hard to engage with the RIAA as good faith actors?
It feels similar to patent trolls whose business strategy is simply to leverage the court by exploiting poorly executed legislation.
- porkbeer 3y agoAs a musician who has dealt with them, no. They are for the big labels and distributors, not the artists.
- kmeisthax 3y agoNo, they're not good faith actors, far from it. However, the sorts of bad faith actions they engage in are not violations of the law. "Implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing" is a provision of contract law, not copyright law.
- ssklash 3y agoIt's also quite hard to be in violation of a law you more or less wrote and passed.
- matheusmoreira 3y agoOh, copyright monopolists are a million times worse than patent trolls. Patent trolls don't make the laws, they just exploit them. Copyright monopolists literally make the laws and then complain that the whole world isn't following them. They spend ridiculous amounts of money on lobbyists and essentially buy whatever laws they want. Leverage courts? Copyright monopolists will literally leverage the might of the US government and military to enforce US laws overseas. Look up US Trade Representative reports on "notorious markets" which is all about getting foreign countries to enforce US copyright law as if they had nothing better to do than police imaginary american property. It's packed full of language like "stakeholders" which is code for these monopolists. It's like they're the bosses of the US government.