Major Record Labels Edited Wikipedia Too
Now that we can see who's been editing what on Wikipedia, it's interesting to note what major label employees have been up to on the site.
For instance, someone at Universal tried to establish a historical basis for DRM in an edit of the Wikipedia entry for "Copyright," by adding the following two paragraphs on February 2, 2005:
"Authors and owners of intellectual properties throughout the ages have tried to direct and control how works would be used. Mozart's patron, Baroness von Waldstätten, allowed his compositions to be freely performed, while Handel's patron (George I, the first of the Hanoverian kings) jealously guarded 'Water Music.'
"Access control was always used as a measure to disallow intellectual property from being distributed without the consent of the author/owner. The [[Library of Alexandria]] (aka "The Kings Library") wasn't a place that an average person could walk into and lend a book from. Ptolemy III paid the sum of fifteen talents of silver to be allowed to copy the works of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides."
