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Dead Musicians Signing Media Rights Petitions
epeus writes "Following from the Gowers coverage and the Musicians' ad in the FT, Larry Lessig admits he was wrong about term extension: 'If you read the list, you'll see that at least some of these artists are apparently dead (e.g. Lonnie Donegan, died 4th November 2002; Freddie Garrity, died 20th May 2006). I take it the ability of these dead authors to sign a petition asking for their copyright terms to be extended can only mean that even after death, term extension continues to inspire. I'm not yet sure how. But I guess I should be a good sport about it, and just confess I was wrong. For if artists can sign petitions after they've died, then why can't they produce new recordings fifty year ago?'"
Yeah! FInally after all these years!!!!
Acting stupid isn't much fun when there's someone around who knows better
> Except this is 50 years ex post facto. If anyone can copy your table after 50, would that make you go
> back and uncreate it? I mean, after 50 years, if you haven't turned a profit on your first table, either
> by selling it or appreciating its exclusivity, you're not going to. I think we can count on two hands
> the number of songs that are still making money after 50 years.
It's still theft to take something which belongs to another person. I don't think it's right to argue taking something without permission is not theft is the item has no value. It is still a violation of that person's property rights.
> And most of the people who made them are dead.
Plenty of people live in houses which were made by people who are now dead.
If something has value, and it belongs to you, you can pass it down to your children, and it then rightfully belongs to them, and the theft is then against their property. The fact they didn't make the original item is irrelevant; it belongs to them.
You still have your table; but you no longer can sell it.
You need to sell it, because you spent the last year doing nothing else but make it and now you have to pay your rent and buy food and clothes.
Owning the original table is no use at all if it cost you money to make and you need to recapture that investment.
But if it's the uniqueness of your tables which causes people to buy them off you, how will you make money from your tables once anyone can copy them freely?
He admitted he's essentially a ruthless MOFO, who's willing to do anything to win.
It makes me want to puke.
Maxim
I'm From Chicago, and am real familiar with voters from the graveyard. ;-p