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

[Cary Ginell]

The Public Domain is a black hole. Nothing that enters it can escape. Once something is P.D., traditionally it has been P.D. forever.

Cary Ginell

> Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 12:50:52 -0400
> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] E.U. just as corrupt as the U.S.
> 
> 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
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