For the last three months, the music industry has been fighting — or at least negotiating in public — with YouTube. Now, artists are adding their voices.
In an ad that will run Tuesday through Thursday in the Washington DC magazines Politico, The Hill, and Roll Call, 180 performers and songwriters are calling for reform of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which regulates copyright online. A range of big names from every genre signed the ad — from Taylor Swift to Sir Paul McCartney, Vince Gill to Vince Staples, Carole King to the Kings of Leon — as did 19 organizations and companies, including the major labels.
Source: Taylor Swift, Paul McCartney Petition Digital Copyright Reform | Billboard