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Consumers vs. IP Owners: The Future of Copyright

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the time-to-buy-the-white-album-again dept.

conJunk writes "The BBC has a thoughtful article about new challenges in copyright. The problem: The rights to the audio recordings of the Beatles first album will expire in 2013. While consumers stand to benefit from competing releases of the materials, the copyright owners are of course terrified. And the artists? This one doesn't even seem to affect them."

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  1. Re:Not "owners" by jojor · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    man, you can really tell that you havent thought about the subject longer than the time it took you to remove a dingleberry from your asshole and eat it!
    "intellectual property" is just that, a bundle of rights in something (tangible or not, think stocks for example) the alotment of which your treat with mechanisms generally described as "property law" - too much legalese?
    well try this one: you reckon that "property" lives forever - thats crap, your rights are just carved out of a bigger bundle of rights and on your demise, your rights will either go back or (within limits) pass on to those you designated. if your rights in property lasted forever, the world would soon be left with nothing to be owned.
    so, in conclusion, IAAL and Id warmly recommend you read Locke or Honore

  2. Re:Whats the problem? by heinousjay · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Just wondering - copyright holders don't qualify as people?

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