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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.
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
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