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20-Year Copyright Extensions Coming To Europe
unlametheweak points out a story at Ars Technica which begins:
"After a UK government-led commission said that the current 50-year term for musical copyrights was fine, and the government last year publicly agreed that there was no need to extend the term, culture minister Andy Burnham yesterday made the logical follow-up announcement that yes, the government would now push for a 20-year extension on copyright. Turns out, it's the moral thing to do. Actually, by framing the issue as a 'moral case,' Burnham gets to sidestep the entire issue of logic. Critics have already begun to charge that he is ignoring actual evidence and the well-regarded conclusions of the Gowers Report (PDF), not to mention previous government policy. But when the issue becomes a moral one and the livelihood of aging performers is at stake, it's suddenly easier to avoid cost/benefit analysis."
You know given the amount of money Obama received from the RIAA, you'd think the extention for steamboat willie was going out of copyright again ...
No. He's a Fundamentalist Christian. Same thing, really.
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You buy land and build a house. That house generates rent for the next ten thousand years.
You DO realise that when people are earning royalties it's because they were not paid for the original work in creating the item right?
Slashdot is full of bitter, resentful geeks who think its EASY to make BILLIONS if you are a recording artist.
So why the fuck don't YOU give up your job, live on food scraps for twenty years and learn to sing?
Not so tempting is it
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