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."

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Mod parent up.

[DaedalusHKX]

Why is it that when someone actually nails the idea perfectly, they get modded down in some fashion or other. The parent should be +5 insightful off topic :)

He was off topic, but also very very insightful. True workings of the market. Bad press is still good press. Like I kept saying 2 years ago, "Rather than Bash Windows, Promote Linux."

Perhaps now, some of those sales hating geeks out there will get it through their skulls that those "evil" marketing droids might know something after all :)

Lisbon Abortion Treaty

[Doc Ruby]

This corporate handout that rips off the people is exactly the kind of EU tyranny that makes people vote to stop the current versions of the European Constitution whenever the people actually get to vote on it. Like the people of Ireland just did to stop the "Lisbon Treaty" that is the latest package of "merde".