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The Balance Between Recording Artists And Recording Companies: A Tip In Favor Of The Artists?, Nicholas Baumgartner
The Balance Between Recording Artists And Recording Companies: A Tip In Favor Of The Artists?, Nicholas Baumgartner
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
To protest the 1999 Copyright Act amendment, recording artists Don Henley and Sheryl Crow, among others, co-founded the RAC. While formed to serve as a "voice for artists' rights," the primary impetus behind its founding was to lobby Congress to delete sound recordings from the definition of "works made for hire" in the Copyright Act. Together with intense lobbying by AFTRA, individual recording artists and legal scholars, the RAC succeeded--in October 2000, sound recordings were removed from the definition of "works made for hire."
The momentum gained by artists in this lobbying effort inspired an attack on the other proverbial …