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EU Proposes Retroactive Copyright Extension
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "EU Commissioner Charlie McCreevy has unveiled a plan to retroactively extend musical copyrights by 45 years, which would make EU musical copyrights last 95 years total. Why? They're worried that musicians won't continue to collect royalties when they retire and this will give them an additional 45 years during which they won't have to produce any new music. Perhaps the only good point is that the retroactive extensions won't take effect for any works which aren't marketed in the first year after the extension. Additionally, while there are many non-musical retirees wishing they could get paid for 95 years after they finish working, McCreevy has not announced any new plans to help them."
Who the hell modded you funny of all things?
And this is what they think of you: http://newsfeed.tcm.ie/media/images/n/nicolassarkozyfingerap.jpg
Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.
Just wait till the Scientologists find a way to retroactively apply copyright for the last billion years.
Why not have indefinite copyright?
Many people are exploiting the works of the greats, like Chaucer and Shakespeare, without offering a nickle to their estates. Some of the worse offenders are theaters and schools, who greedily steal this work to enrich the lives of theatergoers and teenagers. Such self-centred and exploitive behaviours have to stop. Copyrights must be extended eternally, and it must be done retroactively so that the estates of great writers from any member of the EU can seek damages for decades, centuries, and even millenia. /sarcasm
This is the poor sap playing his ass off.
He's also not very good. you are supposed to play with your fingers. Playing with his ass, That has to sound like complete crap.
And dont you get cuts on your ass from the E string? that thing causes me the most pain.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
COBOL developers still seem to be pulling that off.
It's people like you who force the Rolling Stones to stay in business until Jagger has to come on stage with a walker.
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck
Well, when Blair exptresses what he thinks about British voters, he's more polite than what Bush thinks about American voters.
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
Ah, but COBOL's an art (a black art, but still...)
One swallow does not a fellatrix make
Maybe Einstein's 'c' constant was just a symbol for copyright. You take the original 14 year term, square it, and arrive at a period of 196 years! But if somebody produces this novel copyright term length model, shouldn't they be entitled to control it? Aren't all the musicians who set the copyright term lengths the same as the first person to invent the copyright in fact copying his idea? How is more than one lawyer supposed to make a living if every lawyer can just copy his lawsuit methodology? Your Honor, motion to dismiss based on violation of grounds of copying the lawsuits of others.
So really, it's just E=M, but you are not allowed to use the E=M formula until the c^2 copyright term length expires. But as the universe is expanding, so too must the base c expand to keep the proper balance. Otherwise all the art which ever would have been produced in the future might be sucked into a black hole in the past. And we would never even know it!
"From DNA to P2P, we are all Copycats now. Go Go Copycat Power! Copycat Powers activate! Form of, a Copycat." --monxrtr