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EU Record Companies Push to Extend Copyright
TPIRman writes "European record companies, as represented by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, are pressuring the European Union to extend copyright terms for music producers. Critics like Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig are predictably opposed, but the IFPI argues that the move is needed in order to bring the E.U. in sync with U.S. copyright regulations. Ironically, one of the original rationales behind the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act was that U.S. copyrights needed to sync up with European standards."
Never let one hand know what the other is doing and if discovered, deny all knowledge and blame the foot.
My karma is not a Chameleon.
is me pounding my face into the wall.
at least all the poor movie stars will be able to have their graves upgraded each year. Maybe we could have a letter box on their gravestones so they dont miss out on one cent.
All spelling mistakes are due to solar flares...honest
want a better alternative? Shoot them down!
;)
You're forgetting, this is Europe. They came and took our guns away about 50 years ago, and nobody thought to object.
I guess we're going to have to fall back on home-made bombs, knives, broken bottles, poison, blunt instruments, archery, and if at all possible the guillotine to deal with our political problems.
You Americans think guns solve everything... how unimaganitive.
Hey Europe, if all of your friends were jumping off of a bridge, would you do it too?
That's got to be one fuck of a big bridge...
Why that is almost as nutty as an uprising over taxes on tea...
Oh wait....
With inconsistent laws, the enforcement of copyrights from country to country would be chaotic at best.
Absolutely right. We *should* have global consistency, and it would seem the only common denominator is abolishment of copyrights entirely. Some countries have already started !
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why would ANYONE want the kinds of copyright nonsense we have over here? Talk to your [representative] (don't know how your system works :p ) and shoot this down!
Clearly you don't know how the system works, or you'd not bother suggesting we try to get this stopped merely by talking to people...
It's official. Most of you are morons.