The Great Canadian Copyright Giveaway: Copyright Extension For Sound Recordings

An anonymous reader writes: Despite no study, no public demands, and the potential cost to the public of millions of dollars, the Canadian government announced yesterday that it will extend the term of copyright for sound recordings and performances from 50 to 70 years. The music industry did not raise term extension as a key concern during either the 2012 copyright reform bill or the 2014 Canadian Heritage committee study on the industry. For Canadians, the extension could cost millions of dollars as works that were scheduled to come into the public domain will now remain locked down for decades.

Comments

Hardly Surprising

[AttillaTheNun]

the Canadian governments are puppets to their corporate overlords and have historically supported incumbent monopolies over competition and innovation.

Re:They should be doing the opposite

[Mr. Slippery]

So, are you ready to demonstrate, how copyrights have sniffled the development of Jazz, Rock-n-Roll, or Rap, for example?

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HTH. HAND.

Re:They should be doing the opposite

[Carewolf]

Very little music is created in a vacuum, and the line between 'inspiration' and 'derived work' can be fuzzy and subjective.

So, are you ready to demonstrate, how copyrights have sniffled the development of Jazz, Rock-n-Roll, or Rap, for example?

If not, then your "concerns" about sniffling are nothing but attempts to spread FUD.

It has traditionally been allowed. All of those genres have grown up with being allowed to sample, make covers, and especially make music that sounds like other artists (what do you think genres are in the first place?)

Recently it was made illegal to make music that sounds like other artists: http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...

Re:They should be doing the opposite

[Jason Levine]

The best thing that can be said about Blurred Lines is that the Weird Al parody of it was fantastic.