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President-elect Donald Trump is meeting today with some of Silicon Valley’s top business leaders. Ahead of that meeting, content companies sent letters letting Trump know that they’re hoping to see some changes to copyright laws in the near future—changes that technology companies, large and small, are likely to object to.
Yesterday, the RIAA and other stakeholders in the music industry sent a letter (PDF) to the president-elect, asking him for “strong action to enforce intellectual property rights against infringers.”
“As you meet tomorrow with some of the world’s major corporate technology executives, we wanted to highlight some points that are assuring the continued dynamism of music as one of America’s national treasures,” states the letter, which is also signed by the Recording Academy, the Songwriters Guild, the National Music Publishers Association, licensing groups BMI and ASCAP, and other music groups.
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Source: Ars Technica – RIAA, newspapers ask Trump to limit fair use, toughen copyright