{"id":5947,"date":"2016-04-04T16:27:24","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T16:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/04\/04\/400-artists-songwriters-managers-and-music-organizations-call-for-reforms-of-broken-dmca\/"},"modified":"2016-04-04T16:27:24","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T16:27:24","slug":"400-artists-songwriters-managers-and-music-organizations-call-for-reforms-of-broken-dmca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2016\/04\/04\/400-artists-songwriters-managers-and-music-organizations-call-for-reforms-of-broken-dmca\/","title":{"rendered":"400 Artists, Songwriters, Managers, And Music Organizations Call For Reforms Of Broken DMCA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"normal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/5\/5c\/Great_Seal_of_the_United_States_%28obverse%29.svg\/600px-Great_Seal_of_the_United_States_%28obverse%29.svg.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"218\" height=\"218\" \/><br \/>Hundreds of artists, songwriters, managers and  music organizations are calling for reforms of the broken Digital  Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Nearly 400 individual artists,  songwriters, managers, and music organizations have joined together to  argue for reforms to federal laws to strengthen the music economy and  create a healthier, more stable music ecosystem for the next generation  of singers, songwriters, and musicians.  <!--more-->  <br \/> Artists spanning a variety of genres and generations are submitting  comments to the federal government&#8217;s U.S. Copyright Office today and  tomorrow demanding reforms to the antiquated DMCA which forces creators  to police the entire Internet for instances of theft, placing an undue  burden on these artists and unfairly favoring technology companies and  rogue pirate sites. Simultaneously, 18 separate major music  organizations representing virtually the entire music community  submitted a united 100-page joint brief explaining the myriad flaws in  the DMCA \u2013 a law passed during the dial-up era \u2013 and calling for  reforms. And more than 40 managers, representing some of the most  successful musicians in the world, separately explained how an  increasingly broken law prevents a growing number of musicians from  earning a living. All these diverse voices agree that the DMCA has  failed to effectively prevent piracy and has distorted the music  economy, undermining the next generation of creators and putting our  cultural heritage at risk.<\/p>\n<p> Comment of Cary Sherman, Chairman and CEO, RIAA:  &#8220;I don&#8217;t recall a time  when the entire music community has united behind an issue like it has  this one \u2013 speaking with a collective voice for reform of the DMCA. This  outdated and dysfunctional law has hurt everyone involved in creating  music, from the newest emerging artists and songwriters to the global  superstars, from the smallest labels and publishers to the biggest  majors. I hope this unprecedented coming together will encourage  policymakers to take the steps necessary to update this law and ensure  the creative future of music.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"normal\">Source: <\/span><span class=\"normal\">RIAA<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of artists, songwriters, managers and music organizations are calling for reforms of the broken&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}