Jun 5 2003

Thomas Edison, Intellectual Property and the Recording Industry

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MP3newswire.net has posted a George Ziemann 5-part series “Thomas Edison, Intellectual Property and the Recording Industry”. These articles show that the controllers of the media bullied folk back then as they do now – and it didn’t work.

The installments include;

Chapter 1The Dawn of Recorded Music and the First Pirates,

Chapter 2Music, Movies and Monopoly,

Chapter 3The Industry Evolves,

Chapter 4Copyright and the Grand Illusion, and closes with

Chapter 5Bringing the Past Into the Present

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