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The industry’s frustration must have escalated even higher when the Grammy Award-winning British alternative rock group Radiohead decided to give away their 2007 album “In Rainbows” on the Internet for whatever price fans wished to pay, including nothing at all.

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Corporate owners have millions of dollars to gain by keeping their properties out of the public domain. Disney, a major lobbyist for the 1998 extension, would have lost its copyright to Mickey Mouse in 2004, but now will continue to earn millions on its movies, t-shirts, and Mickey Mouse watches through 2024. Warner/Chappell Music, which owns the copyright to the popular “Happy Birthday to You” song, will keep generating money on the song through 2030.

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Quick – name the winner of the Best New Artist Grammy Award in 1989. Need a hint? This group sold nearly 10 million albums worldwide that year, and dominated the U.S. charts with five top 10 hits. Another hint? Their Grammy was revoked a few months after they received it.

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