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.'"

Comments

Re:Why?

[LinuxDon]

But then, when a successful artist dies in an airplane crash their wife and kids will be bankrupt very soon.

Johnny Cash

[jbeaupre]

Best argument I heard against that has to do with Johnny Cash: Imagine a hemorrhoid commercial with the Ring of Fire song playing in the background a week after he died.