RIAA Also Wants to Screw Songwriters

We’ve been pretty hard on the RIAA, which is spending all its time suing music fans instead of working out ways for the music industry to transform itself in the age of online digital music. To date, the RIAA and the record labels have both contended that they’re doing this to protect the songwriters and ensure they make money—except that the labels also don’t care about that either.

It turns out that the RIAA is also looking to lower songwriter royalties from 13% of the wholesale price to 8%, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

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