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Former RIAA chief Rosen in at BP

Posted on June 7th, 2010 • Filed under Uncategorized • No Comments

I’ve been looking for an angle to somehow tie the oil spill in the gulf to media and tech law and aside from a fair use discussion related to people parodying the BP logo, it’s been sparse.   Today, however, Digital Music News reported that ex-RIAA chief Hilary Rosen has been hired by BP to help handle damage control for the embattled oil company in DC.  Rosen, aside from being the head of the RIAA during the fight against Napster, also helped with the passage of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.   Rosen is a super-powerful asset for BP in this fight.  Hiring Rosen and other beltway insiders like Alex Castellanos, former aide to George W. Bush is just a small part of BP’s multi-million dollar PR campaign to try and take some of the heat off of the company.  We’ll see how that works out for them.