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

[David Lennick]

We're still waiting to hear whether it will affect EVERYTHING or not include 
material currently in PD (i.e. issued through 1960).

dl

On 9/9/2011 12:47 PM, Harold Aherne wrote:
> 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