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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."
That's Nice, but how is doubling copyright lengths going to help?
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
So when you scroll to the bottom of your Slashdot page and see "© 1997-2005 OSTG", does that also make you fucking furious?
Help me take back Slashdot. When did 'News for Nerds' become 'FUD and Conspiracy Theories for Extremist Nutjobs'?
" and thus serves no purpose other than reducing public access to information and art."
Duh. That's the whole purpose of this. Lobbiests like to take away rights and access to information and art. It's only to be expected, and it's impossible to prevent. It's just like George Orewell predicted.
It doesn't matter what country we talk about here, all of the worlds governments are corrupt. US, and Europe the most.
Most people think Afghanistan and such is corrupt but they're nothing compared to us. Our governments like to make the public think they have freedoms, and like to take a few away every day. Afghanistan and such just trys to scare the people in to not using their freedoms, which is a recipe for eventual civil war.
No no, our governments are much more intelligent in to give people the illuzion there is freedom -- that way if a few smart individuals figure it out and try to upbring a civil war, nobody will follow them -- then they can easily be labeled as terrorists and be brought down.
Just remember, a frog will never jump out of the boiling pot if you heat it up slowly -- if you heat it up fast he'll jump right out.
We are all frogs, and we're in the pot right now -- is it heating up?