Don Henley: Pallante Stood Up for the Creative Community, and Got Fired

Who is truly responsible for the US Copyright Office controversy? Carla Hayden? Google? Was it just an argument? Was it all coincidence? Not so for Don Henley. Several weeks ago, Maria Pallante suddenly changed office. She was the U.S. Register of Copyrights. She then became a senior adviser for digital strategy for the Library of […]

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The Wall Street Journal Criticizes Google’s “Washington Copyright Coup”

Another U.S. Copyrights Office/Google conspiracy theory? There’s more than meets the eye, says the Wall Street Journal. Several weeks ago, Digital Music News published a piece about Google’s (probable) involvement in the “removal” of Maria Hassante from the Copyrights Office. Of course, most posters were quick to dismiss the story and its “sources” as just […]

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