Comments on: EU to Extend Music Copyright to 95 Years

By: 90014

90014 — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:58:12 +0000

$ for nothin and your ckicks for free.

By: okayokay

okayokay — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:13:58 +0000

need to make it illegal to “rip” music from cd’s and fine the music without a license.

By: DeKrow

DeKrow — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:47:09 +0000

The concept that a person can be paid for the rest of their lives for a single achievement would result in the disintegration of society.

Make a few good management decisions, then retire to the yacht. Setup an email server and get royalties for every email going in and coming out. Laughable, and obvious in it’s stupidity, but directly parallel what they’re proposing above.

The Mark of Cain work regular jobs and create their music in their spare time, and they’re not an entirely unknown band. That’s the way it should be, because they’re creating their art to satisfy their souls – which is the only true artistic endeavour. Art for the sake of making money is not art, and deserves nothing.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:49:23 +0000

95 YEARS! I am sorry, but if a song has not gotten it’s money and isn’t still getting money in the FIRST year, it is a dead song, and should fall into the public domain.

By: PJ

PJ — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:45:14 +0000

It’s true what they say; Copyright is Theft

By: Gwen

Gwen — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:42:40 +0000

“23 Jul 15, 2008 at 03:27 by nexus
greattt!
america the land of the corruption*”

You did realize that this article is about proposed EU legislation?

(EU means European Union)

Oh, and the US of A isn’t an EU member state.

By: Puntin 08

Puntin 08 — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:48:14 +0000

Why, hello there, Charlie McCreevy!

Welcome to the list of politicians bought and payed for by the copyright cartel.

I think the funniest part is that he’s even trying to pretend it’s all for the sake of the poor artists. Yes, Mr.McSleezy, I’m sure all those amazingly long-lived session musicians who must’ve started out work as a fucking zygote can rest easy, now, thanks to you.

This man, he’s real philanthropist.

By: the LIE about session musicians

the LIE about session musicians — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:11:21 +0000

Session musicians are support personnel who are paid cash for their work. They can be employees of recording studios (getting salary and pension) or hired as independent contractors. They do not own copyright, and unlike signed artists, they do not get paid royalties of any kind. (Often their names do not even appear in the credits.)

Therefore, extending copyright would not affect session players in the slightest.

The vast majority of the time, the copyright is owned by the record label – not the artist – so it is the record labels who will be principal beneficiary from longer copyrights. Recording artists only get a tiny percentage paid out as a royalty – the label keeps the lions’share of money.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:53:51 +0000

The real fallacy of this is assuming that any artist will ever see a single cent of this money. Nobody but the distributors profit from this. In fact, they’re going to get money for doing absolutely nothing for another 50 years. The only way for artists to make money reliably is performing.

By: David

David — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:59:40 +0000

Don’t the EU countries have national pension schemes? I believe they do. Lots of other workers have not contributed to pension schemes, do they to deserve pay for work they did 50 years ago?

Do session musicians get paid performance royalties? I don’t think that’s right. Session musicians *may* get a royalty *if* the session wasn’t paid out in full. Here in Canada, session musicians for things like adds can be paid a larger flat rate or they can be paid after each term for which the rights are renewed.

I don’t think this applies to ordinary session musicians on a recording. It does, however, apply to the name artists, composers, and sometimes the publishers.

Someone should check the facts for the EU on this. These change from country to country. They are certainly not the same between Canada and the United States.

My contention is that no one deserves to be paid over and over for a single work session.