EU Commissioner Proposes 95 year Copyright

Posted by Zonk on Thursday February 14, 2008 @04:54AM from the infinity-plus-a-kabillion dept.

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.'"

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Re:Why? by Laur · 2008-02-14 05:09 · Score: 5, Interesting

But then, when a successful artist dies in an airplane crash their wife and kids will be bankrupt very soon.
That's what life insurance is for. Guess what, my employer will stop my paychecks when I die as well. The purpose of copyright is not to provide a legacy so your wife and kids will never have to do any productive work.

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Re:Sweet! by eiapoce · 2008-02-14 06:33 · Score: 5, Interesting

Answer is: Stop paying for music. Once they run out of money they will have no way of corrupting our goverment into these laws.