Comments on: The Problem with Extending Copyright on Music

By: MusikManiacs

MusikManiacs — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:29:55 +0000

i wonder how long can they solve this poblem!

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Boîte noire – Les petites choses utiles du mardi, vol. 94 — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 04:40:44 +0000

[...] culturelle souhaite rallonger, via la Commission européenne, la durée du copyright sur les oeuvres musicales, ce qui lui [...]

By: TerribleTony

TerribleTony — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:37:22 +0000

Commissioner McCreevy?

Sounds too much like Officer McReary of GTA4 fame, and he was a scheming bastard too.

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By: The Problem with Extending Copyright on Music « Paul Carr Musings

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By: Roze

Roze — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:52:15 +0000

Not only does the copyright term need to stop being extended, but also it needs to be reduced. Roze http://www.10ch.org/

By: Jihn Jones

Jihn Jones — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:49:09 +0000

You do indeed reaise some very valid points!

http://www.privacy-tools.net.tc

By: Horus

Horus — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:50:58 +0000

Everyone here has read Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig, riiiiiiiight?
Free eBook on his site. Very eye opening.
As for the article (the important thing here), it's nice to see the lawmakers actually paying attention to groups who AREN'T trying to make a massive amount of profit.

By: Patchouli

Patchouli — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:04:58 +0000

As long as the BPI and other industry scum continue to be unopposed, they shall get their way. They may have a few hurdles in their way, like human rights declarations, the right to privacy, or the commercial interests of the ISPs, but they can get past them (and they will if they remain unopposed), and once they do, then they can do anything they want to push their agenda and take away everything from us. Everything good about file-sharing will be gone if they remain unopposed. We must act before this happens!

By: nick awesomeson

nick awesomeson — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:41:46 +0000

I think if the musicians and actors just stopped spending all of their money on stupid and unnecessary things, they wouldn't be penniless in 50 years.

All though, in 50 years, most of them will be dead, or at least 60.

By: DaronK

DaronK — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:02:30 +0000

Were the hell do they find the cash to forward projects like this?

Damn you Record Labels!

By: Mystia

Mystia — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:44:14 +0000

Destroy the MPAA! Destroy the RIAA! Down with the RIAA! Down with the MPAA!
Down with the MAFIAA! Down with the BPI! Down with the IFPI!

Mitch Bainwol, which is the head of the RIAA, ought to do down. Down with Mitch Bainwol!
Dan Glickman, who is the head of the MPAA, also ought to go down. Down with Dan Glickman!

Finally, down with Comissioner McCreevy!

They have wronged us, and for this, we must not forget, we must not forgive. They need to go down! Revenge!

By: ruhaan

ruhaan — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:39:46 +0000

wtf man

when will the money whores of the RIAA and MPAA stop?

By: EZEE

EZEE — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:30:33 +0000

Wrote about this just a little while back:
http://ezee.se/articles-blog/2009/01/19/open-righ…

Thanks for the update!

Cheers!
http://www.eZee.se

By: Merlin

Merlin — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:21:56 +0000

Down with McCreevy!
Down with McCreevy!
Down with McCreevy!
Down with McCreevy!

By: Merlin

Merlin — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:14:46 +0000

Down with the BPI!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:14:28 +0000

Sounds to me like this may just push up prices for us all encouraging more people to do down the route of piracy. http://www.fetchmp3.com

By: yuriythebest

yuriythebest — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:10:34 +0000

yess! oppose!

By: pink panther

pink panther — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:32:35 +0000

Biggest drawback is that, if I know the music I grew up with will NEVER be in the public domain, I am much more likely to give up on copyright and other “intellectual property” at all – like Darth Vader said, the more systems you squeeze, the more that fall through your fingers.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:53:11 +0000

Slightly sci-fi in that it’s set in the future, but relevant to copyright extension nonetheless.

http://www.spiderrobinson.com/melancholyelephants.html

For those who don’t like to read, the basic message is that there’s only a finite number of pieces of art that we can possible create (a limited number of different distinguishable notes or colours which can be arranged in a limited number of ways, of which only a certain selection are pleasing to human senses). If copyright is made perpetual, we will eventually run out of “original” ideas because we’ve really just been discovering them, rather than creating them, all along.

Also people may possibly flip out and kill themselves when they discover that something they put all their creativity into to try and be original, is actually a knock-off of something old. That part may or may not be true.

By: r0ck

r0ck — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:46:14 +0000

If you can’t make a living off of your music in 50 years maybe you’re a shitty musician. The only ones that really benefit from this crap are the rights holders that will continue piling up cash for the work that a dead person originally did.