Obama Picks RIAA’s Favorite Lawyer For Top DoJ Post
Posted on January 7th, 2009 at 8:25 amYikes looks like Obama has made another mistake in his choice of Cabinet members, Baldy.
The Recording Industry of America’s favorite courtroom lawyer, Tom Perrelli, who has sued individual file swappers in multiple federal courts, is President-elect Barack Obama’s choice for the third in line at the Justice Department. CNet’s Declan McCullagh explores the background of the man who won the RIAA’s lucrative business for his DC law firm: “An article on his law firm’s Web site says that Perrelli represented SoundExchange before the Copyright Royalty Board — and obtained a 250 percent increase in the royalty rate for music played over the Internet by companies like AOL and Yahoo,” not to mention Pandora and Radio Paradise. NewYorkCountryLawyer adds.
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