Music industry seeks out copyright-friendly politicians
THE ENTERTAINMENT business is advertising for presidential candidates who will sing from its hymn sheet.
The Washington-based Copyright Alliance has sent an email to the 17 candidates vying for Democratic or Republican nominations next year asking for them to champion "meaningful copyright protection" in their policy statements.
It says that it will make the answers it gets public, although we suspect that only people who will care are the music and film industry.
The five questions it poses suggest that without people doing what the film and music industry wants, the entire US economy, and democracy, will collapse. According CNET, the way the questions are phrased even the most anti-copyright politician would have to agree with the music business.
One question asks how would a candidate might promote "the progress of science and creativity, as enumerated in the US Constitution, by upholding and strengthening copyright law and preventing its diminishment?"
In other words if you do not uphold and strengthen copyright law you are not supporting the scientific progress or the US constitution.
RIAA chief Mitch Bainwol told hacks that when Americans vote, the value that should be important to them is a commitment to creativity. The only way that commitment can be expressed is through a commitment to intellectual property rights, whatever the motivation.
Politicians filling in the form will have to be careful. The entertainment business will pay top dollar in campaign contributions for those presidential candidates who will do as they are told. µ
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What an oxymoron... I haven't seen much creativity in pop music in about 20 years. This whole ploy basically sounds like RIAA asking prospective candidates, "can we buy you?" Ugh, can you make it any less blatant?
...and that government of the politicians, by the lobbyists, for the industries, shall not perish from the earth.
Hmm, so this commitment would include paying the writers would it MPAA/NBC/ABC/CBS/ETC?

A democracy is supposed to be the rule of the People, not of the Companies.
All this lobbying just serves to pervert democracy by bending to the needs of the few (the rich billionaires that have the money to make their point of view heard) and ignore the needs of the many (all those blokes who don't have the time or the money to go to Washington to complain about their 401K going to hell and who cares about this copyright thing is it going to put food on the table ?).
Not counting, of course, all those who simply do not have any interest in politics because it's all about corruption/they always lie anyway/put your own excuse here.
As some famous guy said, all Evil needs to win is the Good guy do nothing.