EU suggests singers and musicians should earn copyright fees for 95 years
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| Singers and musicians should earn royalty fees for 95 years — almost double
| the current 50-year limit, a European Union official said Thursday as he
| promised to draft new copyright protection rules.
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http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/14/business/EU-FIN-EU-Music-Royalties.php
Money makes laws.
RIAA gets Does' names after school threatened with contempt
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| Hours after a federal court judge ordered Oklahoma State University to show
| cause why it shouldn't be held in contempt for failing to respond to an RIAA
| subpoena, attorneys for the school e-mailed a list of students' names to the
| RIAA's attorneys.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080213-riaa-gets-does-names-after-school-threatened-with-contempt.html
http://tinyurl.com/yrxvr5
Mafia masters the art of extortion.
Related:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5jkZFIwmc-8
Lessig: Required Reading: the next 10 years
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| Yet governments continue to push ahead with this idiot idea -- both Britain
| and Japan for example are considering extending existing terms. Why?
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| The answer is a kind of corruption of the political process. Or better,
| a "corruption" of the political process. I don't mean corruption in the
| simple sense of bribery. I mean "corruption" in the sense that the
| system is so queered by the influence of money that it can't even get
| an issue as simple and clear as term extension right.
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http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/003800.shtml#003800
RIAA, MPAA urge pro-copyright vows from presidential candidates
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| One question, for instance, asks: "How would you promote the progress of
| science and creativity, as enumerated in the U.S. Constitution, by upholding
| and strengthening copyright law and preventing its diminishment?"
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9821141-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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