Here’s an interesting factoid… Rather than paying the recording artist their due the RIAA spent 2.8 million dollars last year lobbying in Washington for stricter copyright laws and and overall better legal climate. Without that climate they certainly couldn’t have extorted more than $200,000 dollars from that woman who downloaded 24 songs off of the interwebs. And to think that they did that with the help of a judge. Kind of makes you lose faith in our system of justice.
RIAA spent $2.8 mil on lobbying in ‘07
Associated Press
April 17, 2008
The recording industry’s trade group spent nearly $2.8 million pumping up the volume on its lobbying on Capitol Hill last year.
The Washington-based Recording Industry Association of America lobbied on a bill to limit fees charged to Internet radio stations for music broadcasts and on efforts to limit copyright violations, especially overseas.
The trade group spent $2.1 million lobbying in the second half of 2007, according to a form posted online Feb. 12 by the Senate’s public records office. It spent $659,000 on lobbying in the first half of the year.
Lobbyists are required to disclose activities that could influence members of the executive and legislative branches, under a federal law enacted in 1995.
[Thanks, Hollywood Reporter]
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