On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 11:32 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
RIAA
and collecting society mafias,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_copyright_collection_societies#United_States comparable to the German GEMA mafia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_copyright_collection_societies#Germany
are law-abiding, but they likely have lobbies that have impact tothe law
and they seemingly don't care about ethics. However, the author of a
work always is the author of this work. An author can give all the
rights to somebody else, but not the authorship = copyright.