[78-L] E.U. just as corrupt as the U.S.

[Harold Aherne]

Another article on the same matter:
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-09/08/eu-copyright-extension
 
To Mr Daltrey's argument I respond: where were you in the 1970s and 80s when the 
copyrights of recordings made by Gracie Fields, Bert Firman, Henry Hall, Fred Elizalde,
Cavan O'Connor et al. were expiring? Why should artists of later decades be awarded the
privilege of 70-year-long royalty protection when earlier ones were not? Ah, I get it--you 
were young back then and always would be. 
 
Still, I wonder if all these copyright-extension acts will prove to be a Pyrrhic victory. The rise
of digital media has caused so many people to cheerfully ignore copyright laws that they
may eventually become--or perhaps already are--as effective and widely-obeyed as 
the Eighteenth Amendment.
 
-HA