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Extended Music copyright

Posted: 2005-06-07 08:37am
by The Grim Squeaker
http://slashdot.org/articles/05/06/06/1 ... =186&tid=1
:evil: Record companies
:evil:
And to think they complain when people download the songs.
Well i'm reinstalling Lime wire along with Azareus on my pc, as well as decideding to teach my whole family about the wonders of limewire. :twisted:

Posted: 2005-06-07 09:04am
by HemlockGrey
Copyright law is fucked right up the ass. What is this "life of the artist + 80 years" bullshit? It should be life of the artist plus five or ten years for a reasonable return for the studio or conglomerate which funded the project.

Fucking Disney. Fucking music companies. As long as they can't come up with a creative thought, and as long as politicians whore themselves out to megacorps, this will continue.

Posted: 2005-06-07 09:08am
by Mouseychan
Of course, few 'arts' industries if any care about the 'arts' anymore.

Posted: 2005-06-07 09:13am
by The Grim Squeaker
Art=Lowest common demonitor's laughtrack cousin.

Theyre also paying people to listen to all the popular music to try and find a winning format. :roll:
All of a sudden i'm reminded of one of the architect's in Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead", the one who made all of his buildings a fully collaborated effort. :) .

I wouldnt even mind the extended copyright as long as they lowered the price (30ct's a song on itunes for example)

Posted: 2005-06-07 09:18am
by Mouseychan
My big issue with the music idustry is never being able to find anything I want. Like Dune for example.

Posted: 2005-06-07 09:26am
by The Grim Squeaker
Or any decent soundtrack or game music, any non mainstream music is very hard to find outside the uk,us,western europe.
That's what limewire is for :twisted:
(pat's Guilty gear xx soundtrack as part of 8GB size game genre :) ) -
erm not that I would ever download music that's not available for 1 pound a track of course...

Posted: 2005-06-07 09:46am
by HemlockGrey
Well, I suppose I can rest easy knowing that such gems as "Girl Fight", "Generic Rap Song...Bitch" and the entire Maroon 5 song catalogue will not enter the public domain until well after I am dead. I suppose there is some good to this law after all.

Posted: 2005-06-07 11:27am
by The Grim Squeaker
And Yellow submarine will not.
Ah Well, i know it by heart anyway :)

Posted: 2005-06-07 12:12pm
by Sir Sirius
Discover the cure for cancer, workable fusion power or something actually useful and your patent will be valid for twenty years. Write a song and it's copyrights will hold for 90 years.

Posted: 2005-06-07 12:30pm
by The Grim Squeaker
At least it's not the opposite way round.
Also 20 years of monopoly on a technology usually lasts a long time (look at AT&T)