Record Companies

Devils Kitchen has an excellent post regarding a development in the music industry. It turns out that record companies have effectively been exploiting artists by using songs in compilations without obtaining the necessary rights.

"And don't, for a second, think that the artists are playing softball with the music companies. In a wonderful double irony, they are using the music companies' own assessment of damages—used against individual filesharers—as a measure of how much said companies owe in damages."

Excellent.