New IFPI Boss Vows to Extend Recording Copyrights

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New IFPI Boss Vows to Extend Recording Copyrights

Posted by michael on Thursday September 23, 2004 @03:03AM from the class-war dept.

JamesD_UK writes "John Kennedy, President and COO of Universal Music is to succeed Jay Berman as Chairman of the IFPI, the worldwide equivalent to the RIAA. Andrew Orlowski of The Register has written an article covering John Kennedy's views on copyright infringement and the public domain. Although Kennedy's thoughts on the former are predictable, he has vowed to fight hard to extend European recording copyrights past the current fifty year term. An extension of the European term to match the US would be particularly damaging to the public domain and efforts such as the Internet Archive as well as increasing the control that the recording industry holds over performers. For those interested, I run a small blog of articles regarding copyright recordings."

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Nothing to say really.... by Iguru42 · 2004-09-23 03:05 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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Re:Poor Picasso is rolling over in his grave! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-23 03:06 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Don't you ever shut up? Get a job, a life or something.

Most importantly, get out of your parent's basement.
Re:Poor Picasso is rolling over in his grave! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-23 03:07 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Most importantly, get out of your parent's basement.

At least I'm not an anonymous troll. I have a job and a house and a girlfriend! Fuck, I own you.
Re:Poor Picasso is rolling over in his grave! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-23 03:10 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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And so what, you have a user name, you are still anonymous behind that. Moron.
fuck yusuf islam by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-23 03:12 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Cat Stevens is a fucking terrorist. He gave money to Hamas, a known terrorist agency that kills Jews and Americans, he was a backer of Ayatollah Khomeini, and his music sucks. Fuck him and all the Islamo-fascist cocks. He is not with us, so he is with the terrorists. Kick his ass out!

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Re:Poor Picasso is rolling over in his grave! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-23 03:12 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Well, unfortunately for you, you're a douchebag and it's obvious that you are unable to do any research. garcia is fairly public on the web. Perhaps you should get a clue and stop trolling?
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You don't want to click on them. Especially at work.

I hope I don't lose my job over this...

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Re:Poor Picasso is rolling over in his grave! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-23 03:13 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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