Major 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 havetried to direct and control how works would be used. Mozart's patron,
Baroness von Waldstätten, allowed his compositions to be freelyperformed, while Handel's patron (George I, the first of the Hanoveriankings) jealously guarded 'Water Music.'

"Access control was always used as a measure to disallow intellectualproperty from being distributed without the consent of theauthor/owner. The [[Library of Alexandria]] (aka "The Kings Library")
wasn't a place that an average person could walk into and lend a bookfrom. Ptolemy III paid the sum of fifteen talents of silver to beallowed to copy the works of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides."

EMI's edits

Sony/BMG's edits

Universal Music Group's edits

Warner Music Group's edits

(via idolator)