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

[David Lennick]

Not necessarily, although for our purposes that may be the case. But France 
extended copyrights years ago for a number of composers because of a couple of 
wars. And remember how "It's a Blunderful Life" came back into copyright 
through some side door?

I've also read that all EU countries have to ratify the terms within two years.

Where's Mr. Bunting with all his bundles of information?

dl

On 9/9/2011 2:55 PM, Cary Ginell wrote:
>
> 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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