Who's helping who here - from Techdirt

Nice nugget from Techdirt on a group of artists that are forming their own lobby group called the Featured Artists Coalition:

"One of the goals, actually, is to put pressure on the record labels to allow the musicians to retain the copyright on their music, rather than handing it over to the labels. At the very least, it ought to be interesting to see the two of them fight this out."

Mike Masnick goes on to say:

"Though, my fear is that this new group really just promotes more of the same, and doesn't focus on new business model opportunities, but again looks for ways to "protect" rather than to innovate."

Ah, just like United Artists then...