[Editor Charlie says:  This Chris Castle post originally appeared in MTP on Nov. 23, 2010.  We are reposting in light of Google’s recent efforts through cut outs and the trade groups in their paid service to perpetuate Google’s safe harbor in the European Copyright Directive so ably exposed by David Lowery, Volker Reick, the Times of […]

"This is a great day for Europe’s creators." Music industry welcomes European Parliament vote for Article 13 and EU digital copyright reform. #CopyrightDirective https://t.co/9laPO8GMiD pic.twitter.com/fFJ2ebqGmt — Music Week (@MusicWeek) September 12, 2018 In a major defeat for Google’s astroturf campaign, the European Parliament has passed the new European Copyright Directive.  Big step forward for closing […]

Right on cue, SiriusXM attacks the Music Modernization Act at the 11th hour with a frothy op-ed in Billboard that strings together what I would argue are a lot of half-truths and misrepresentations in a desperate effort to fool both artists and the Congress into preserving the Sirius crony insider deal on subsidized royalty rates. […]

[Attention @SenatorBurr @MarkWarner! GoogleTwitterFacebook are attacking the European Parliament just the way they do the US Congress!] #Culture is under attack: #Europe's cultural and creative sectors are calling all citizens! @POLITICOEurope https://t.co/Eho6wK0HHu @AxelVossMdEP @TheProgressives @GreensEP @EPPGroup @GUENGL @ecrgroup @ALDEgroup @EP_President pic.twitter.com/LyvUXvG5NU — IMPALA (@IMPALAMusic) September 3, 2018