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Copyright makers good, copyright owners bad

guihombre 18th Mar 2010

Actually his speech backs creators. This is not the same as the distributors.

If you look at iTunes, it has sold 3 billion apps since it opened the app store. It has 100,000 different applications employing hundreds of thousands of people.

Before that came along, almost none of those applications had an outlet. The computer stores held a tiny number of applications, only from the big companies.

It was a dead market, controlled by a few big players and you can line up with the creators and be against the distributors that choked the channel.

So Obama lines up with the music creators too, good! But that is not the same as saying the RIAA should be allowed to rape the creators of all the profit. Yet that is how it was before the Internet. You had a record deal, and the record company got the profit and you got what was left. Not anymore!

He has not lined up with the middleman that controlled the markets, rather the producers and creators that make it and that's a good thing.