On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:51:57 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> I don't think the RIAA actually holds copyrights, though, do they?  I
>> thought the record labels and artists held the copyrights.
> 
> Now that you mention it, that's probably true. It's hard to understand
> what RIAA's legal involvement in the whole mess is, given the RIAA as
> such wouldn't seem to have any standing.

They represent a consortium of copyright holders, that much I know - but 
yeah, I don't think there's anything out there (other than their website) 
that they would hold a copyright on.

> Of course, it's a different country with apparently much different
> copyright laws, so I have no idea how their legal system treats such
> things.

Well, I don't know that RIAA was involved directly - IFPI was, though.

Jim

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