Musician Lobby Terms Balanced Copyright "Disgusting"
Aug 31
An anonymous reader writes “While most of the attention at Thursday’s Canadian copyright town hall was on the recording industry’s strategy to pack the room and exclude alternate voices, the most controversial activity took place outside the hall. It has now been revealed that security guards threatened students and a Member of Parliament for distributing leaflets, and the American Federation of Musicians termed the MP’s leaflet, which called for balanced copyright, ‘disgusting’ and demanded a retraction and apology. At this point, such an admission seems unlikely.”
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