Cody Taylor

JUST call him BONO LLOYD WEBBER. Rock superstars U2 have revealed their Spiderman musical will be ready to hit Broadway this year.

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 Declam 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, “Certainly this does not bode well for CowboyNeal’s being appointed Copyright Czar.”

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