Extending Pop Music Copyrights

InklingBooks writes "According to TimesOnLine, the UK is considering doubling the copyright term for popular music to 100 years. That means the Beatles' "Love Me Do" and "Please Please Me," scheduled to to go into the public domain in 2013, would earn royalties for record companies until 2063."

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it is almost

[__aahlyu4518]

'strawberry fields forever'

well.. another 50 years feels like forever to me :-)

Love

[__aahlyu4518]

Love love me doe
I act like a ho
You'll pay me some mo
so pleeeaaaheaaheaheaaaaasssee

Give me doe !!

Re:I'm all for it (not a troll, please read).http:

[njcoder]

Well, I guess now we know those christian music listening, family oriented, clean cut types love to pirate music. So much for family values. Servers you right for targetting your business to such a degenerate crowd.

Catchy advertisements

[rockspider]

One advantage of this is that it will be a little more difficult for crappy adds to use beatles tunes to advertise their products. Imagine "strawberry fields forever" to a streets icecream

record company executives

[ZorroXXX]

I think Douglas Adams was quite on spot in one of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books where he describes a bar populated with somewhat less attractive clients:

He glanced around at the motley collection of thugs, pimps and record company executives that skulked on the edges of the dim pools of light with which the dark shadows of the bar's inner recesses were pitted. They were all very deliberately looking in any direction but his now, carefully picking up the threads of their former conversations about murders, drug rings and music publishing deals.

Re:Pervert?

[huge colin]

for no reason other than being really, really weird. And that shouldn't be a crime in America.

Disagree. Have you seen how weird he is?

Fuck. Disney.

[StarKruzr]

Mickey Mouse should have entered the public domain in 1935.