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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/03/2026

Another example: in 1999, Congressional staffer Mitch Glazier inserted an amendment to the Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act that took away musicians' ability to claim back the rights to their recordings after 35 years through "Termination of Transfer": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_G... 7/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/03/2026

This amendment whacked one group of musicians particularly hard: the Black "heritage acts" who had been coerced into signing *unbelievably shitty* contracts in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, who were increasingly using termination to get those rights back. 8/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/03/2026

For these beloved musicians, termination meant the difference between going hungry and buying a couple extra bags of groceries every month (if this sounds familiar, it might be because you read about it in my 2024 novel *The Bezzle*): us.macmillan.com/books/978125... 9/

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The Bezzle

New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the lives of the hundreds of thousands of inmates in California’s pris...

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