The Recording Industry Association of America needs to assume the position that it has been putting file sharers and music artists in for the last couple of years.
The RIAA, in a broad sweeping protective motion (translate as lawsuits) has sought to help the artists in popular music today by putting an end to piracy. They say that sales of CD's have dropped 2 billion dollars in the past 3 years due to the explosion of music downloads. The artists, or at least the big label artists, stand behind them. The RIAA has hired lawyers and done studies, and has proven their point. But uh-oh, what's this? Someone cared enough to prove them wrong.
It seems that a Mr. Felix Oberhozer-Gee of Harvard Business School and Koleman Strumpf of the U. Of North Carolina have been doing their own research. They picked their time frame from the heyday of Napster and showed that in a study of 650 albums in a 17 week time period in 2002, the sales of the CD's increased by 1 copy for every 150 downloads. This is bad news for the RIAA, because they've been running a campaign to woo the American public by suing them and charging 16 bucks for about 3 dollars of music.
Speaking of legal copyrights, Donald Trump is seeking a trademark on the tagline, "You're Fired", which he uses weekly on his show, "The Apprentice". Seriously, how does someone like this make it so far in life? What is the limit to what you can trademark?
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