Re: [Sheflug] No More Music

[Mike Preston - Technomonk Industries <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Tim Dobson wrote:
| On 12/02/2008, Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
|
|>  Seems like yet another Government strangeness which is basically
|>  being led by a Redmond initiative.  Or, by someone with a large pile
|>  of money who doesn't care too much for the rest of us.
|
| Speaking of which I presume we have all seen this.
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/14/1626228
|
| "The European Union Commissioner for the Internal Market has today
| proposed extending the copyright term for musical recordings to 95
| years."
|
| Personally I find this totally preposterous that copyright term be
| increased. the argument that 50's and 60's stars will have to move out
| of their mansion holds no weight with me - either you save money while
| you are making it, or you accept that you have to exist on less money
| when you are older, just like everyone else.
| *Extending* copyright term is absurd.

Time to write a nice source code to music converter (bidirectional) so
you can copyright it both ways... :P


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