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Extending Pop Music Copyrights

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the but-of-course dept.

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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  1. record company executives by ZorroXXX · · Score: 5, Funny
    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.

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    When you are sure of something, you probably are wrong (search for "Unskilled and Unaware of It").