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 1 — The Dawn of Recorded Music and the First Pirates,
Chapter 2 — Music, Movies and Monopoly,
Chapter 3 — The Industry Evolves,
Chapter 4 — Copyright and the Grand Illusion, and closes with
Chapter 5 — Bringing the Past Into the Present
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