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'That's All Right' Soon To Enter UK Public Domain
jwlidtnet writes "Reuters is reporting that Elvis's "That's All Right"--currently an unlikely hit in Great Britain--is soon to enter the public domain in that country, followed by other milestones of popular music as Britain's fifty-year protection period comes to an end. Naturally, rights owners are outraged, regarding it as a "wakeup call" for Britain to adopt something similar to the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act, to end this "discrepancy between the United States and the EU." Copyright law uniformity has of course been a sore issue in recent years, with the exportation of "DMCA-alike" legislation raising the ire of many. Uniformity on an issue this divisive might be difficult to achieve politically."
If this recording enters the public domain, what incentive will Elvis have to produce new music?
I'm dead, i'm all dried up, awhahuh..... ohhhhhhh oohhhhhhhh yea!
But Elvis is alive! I just saw him leaving the building!
I could use another 20+ years for this attrocity to wait.
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What do you mean, 'dead'?
Marxist evolution is just N generations away!
Nah, I think we'll more likely see some spectacular monetary-driven killings instead.
All that old artists that are still alive do is claim their copyright from their Good Ole Days. Yet those same artists, dead, will give you all their work for free within the timespan of a few years!
Which, of course, leads us to our Business Plan for the next few years:
1. Alter Copyright Law
2. Kill Metallica
3. ???
4. Profit!
I thank you all.
"We can confirm that Debian does *not* ship the version with the trojan horse. Our version predates it." [CA-2002-28]
So, does the GPL fit into #1 or #2? I'm leaning toward #1.
Shit, there went my karma.
"But I'm still right here, giving blood and keeping faith. And I'm still right here."
> I don't expect my employer to continue paying my salary to my hairs after I die.
Your employer pays salary to your hairs?
before you even consider moving to britain, sometimes known as england, you could learn to speak, read and write english!
Ugbog and Moon-Pixie Spears have contested the copyright expiration of the classic Earth music their late, departed genetic Mother* Britney produced in the dark half of the twenty-first century. Moon-Pixie has amassed a considerable thought-petition amongst the noble citizenry of the outer satellites of the Lewinsky-Shatner system. She has mind-beamed a long list of names to the central Solar executive, and is awaiting their synaptic consent. The music of the former Earth-President Britney has been studied extensively for the last 30 years by a range of conscious and super-conscious experts. They have all agreed that the sub-spiritual quality of her sonic poems, when combined with the post-Leno auto-referentialism that abounded at the time, make her work of particular historical importance. Moon-Pixie Spears is seeking to prevent the mass humming of Britney's work by neural-construction engineers that has been popular in the outer quadrants for decades, as this is an infringement of the original copyright provision. ( * Mother - an example of early 21st century outmoded genetic relationship nomenclature - it's common usage is all but illegal today. )
Wow, did you figure that out all by yourself? You must be one of those really smart Mac users.
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... Our stuff is still selling, and there's about 250 various compilation albums out there worldwide. I'd like the period extended as soon as possible, and 600 years sounds good to me."
European Copyright Clock Expired on Shakespeare Hits
LONDON (Billhoard) - Over four hundred years after it was first released in the England, Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", "Macbeth", and other plays are still hits across the globe.
Shakespeare's works have been printed by the tens of millions, with hundreds of theater groups preforming thousands of performances every year for untold millions of consumers. For the original author and publisher the celebration is long over.
If there are no changes in European copyright law, the play will languish in public domain. Anyone will can release or even preform it without paying royalties to the authors performer's heirs. Publishers are losing a fat wads of cash all across Europe.
As Shakespeare's works are being hailed by some as some of the greatest works in the English language, more and more works are falling into public domain.
The Shakespeare case illustrates the importance of the issue for publishing companies in Europe. The lost profits are incalculable.
WAKEUP CALL
"I regard this week's anniversary as a wakeup call and a call to arms to step up a gear or two in our campaign to lobby for longer terms in the EU," said Jim E. Monet, executive chairman of Brutish Publishing Industry, in a recent speech.
Cecil R. Logik added, "The lapse copyright on the explosion of British popular writings and music, not just the Shakespeare, but many other British artists, is is already happening. If nothing is done they will suffer loss of income not just for their sales in the U.K. but their sales across the globe."
An increasing number of works will start falling into public domain in the coming years.
Star Vin R. Tist is bass guitarist with the Retired, originally the backing group for Manny Dedd. Dedd's and the Retired's copyrights will start to expire when they hit the 50-year mark in 2009.
"It's scary," Tist said during a 37-date sold-out tour of the United Kingdom. "I only became aware of the situation last year
Against this background, it is not surprising that the extension of the term of duration of copyrights is the publishing industry's main priority on the legislative agenda in Europe.
The EU is reviewing its past directives on imaginary property, notably the EU Term of Protection scheme directive. With this in mind, trade body the Federation United of Artist Leeching Lawyers (FU-ALL) last year asked the European Commission for an extension of Term of Protection scheme for producers and artists with the goal of extending copyright beyond the international norms and doing so retroactively, as was done in the United States.
The FU-ALL has started a campaign to raise awareness among policy manipulators and legislators on the issue. It targets EU member states, the EC and the Parliament.
"We are using any opportunity we have to highlight the issue during meetings with the commission and MEPs," said Brussels-based FU-ALL senior propaganda executive Cammi Paine-Trubutor.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
He's not just a member, he's the president.
Haida Manga
What is truely scary is finding out that the recordings of Cliff Richard and the Shadows will be entering the public domain pretty soon.
Please! Please EU! Extend copyrights to death plus a 1000 years ASAP!!!!