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EU Record Companies Push to Extend Copyright

Posted by Zonk on from the just-a-little-bit-longer dept.

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."

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  1. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FP?

  2. ZONK, STOP TOPIC SPAMMING!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Zonk, stop putting the patent pending icon up there when it doesn't apply!

  3. Wow two stories on slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    TPIRman got two stories on a row on slashdot. Wow.. something which other slashdotters only dream of. Congrats man...

    Please don't mod me troll or offtopic. This is just my appreciation.

  4. Pornographic Industry? by Raistlin77 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Did anyone else read this as International Federation of the Pornographic Industry?

    1. Re:Pornographic Industry? by goldspider · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      No, and in Soviet Russia, the "I confused phonographic with pornogrpahic" joke overuses YOU!

      --
      "Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
    2. Re:Pornographic Industry? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Somebody mod this (-1, Redundant) - we get this lame fucking joke every god damn time someone posts a story about the IFPI. I'm sick of seeing this turd crapping up my /. experience.

      Suckass.

  5. Re:Dupe'd agaIn! by rovingeyes · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Heck I am in America and I am a liberal, I was a terrorist long time ago!

  6. Is it really a little one afterall? by Wilvid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And the giant tentacled monster said, "Roll over, roll over."
    And they all rolled over, and one fell out, and the giant tentacled monster said, "Roll over, roll over."

  7. Sonny Bono ala Rocky Horror Picture Show by satsuke · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The original legislation reminds me of a classic Rocky Horror line.

    Scene where Janet is singing "There's a Light _over at the Frankenstein place_" - as she is backing up into the tree.

    The line goes - to the tune of George of the Jungle theme.

    Sonny Sonny
    Sonny Sonny Bono
    fast as he can be
    Sonny Sonny
    Sonny Sonny Bono
    watch out for that tree

    (you might remember he died in a skiing accident)

    And yes, extension of copyright in perpetuity doesn't serve anyone's long term interest .. US or EU.

  8. Sonny Bono by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I've got skiis babe. I've got trees babe. I've got skeeeez baaaabbbe. Wump! "He died of injuries from hitting a tree while skiing at the Heavenly Ski Resort near South Lake Tahoe, California. His widow Mary was elected to fill his unexpired Congressional term, and has since been re-elected in 1998 and later elections in her own right. She continues to champion many of her late husband's causes, including the ongoing fight as how to best save the Salton Sea."

  9. Re:Write to them by bbc · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I would love to. By the way, what is the correct form of address for a toad?