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EU Commissioner Proposes 95 year Copyright
Albanach writes "The European Union Commissioner for the Internal Market has today proposed extending the copyright term for musical recordings to 95 years. He also wishes to investigate options for new levies on blank discs, data storage and music and video players to compensate artists and copyright holders for 'legal copying when listeners burn an extra version of an album to play one at home and one in the car ... People are living longer and 50 years of copyright protection no longer give lifetime income to artists who recorded hits in their late teens or early twenties, he said.'"
because it's not your job to make sure they create something else. they made it. it's theirs to do with as they may, and no law you made should be able to take that away from them. why should you get something from them for free? if you do, why would you bother creating anything yourself? you're a fucking loser.