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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:Whats the problem? by TubeSteak · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Are the Beatles going to be the next Mickey Mouse?

    Speaking of beatles, why wasn't this submitted by * * Beatles Beatles?

    Oh, and check out "The Grey Album" it's a remix of The Beatles by DJ Danger Mouse. http://www.illegal-art.org/audio/grey.html The site has a torrent link on it, but you can find http mirrors through google.

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