OPINION: How Garth Brooks Harms Music Incomes of Others

The Copyright Alliance pointed me to a letter that musician Monisa Angell wrote the Obama Administration. If you want to see the arguments in the music industry painted in black and white. Her note is certainly the black. She raises the question, "Can we afford to have a country where the creator has no value?" Well, no. Creators are valuable, as are their creative works, given the optimum market conditions. No one has ever contested that. Most worrisome is the tone she strikes. At the very leas...

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