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____/ Andrew Halliwell on Wednesday 16 July 2008 09:08 : \____
> Homer <usenet@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>
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>>> | an extra 45 years' protection is highly unlikely to ...
>>
>> ... reduce copyright violation. In fact it'll criminalise that which was
>> previously legal, thus exacerbating the problem by a huge factor.
>
> Only if the copyright extension is retroative...
> And is it legally possible to do that?
> Such a thing is theft, after all... They're stealing property that belonged
> to the public domain and putting it back under a copyright umbrella.
>
> Anyone copying and selling such works and taken to court would be well
> within their expectations to be able to say "This work has been part of the
> public domain for 20 years, I have committed no crime in copying, packaging
> and selling it. It belongs to me, it belongs to you, it belongs to everyone
> in this courtroom, and has done for 20 years. What right does anyone have to
> take our property away?"
>
> Note: this is different to copyright violation.
> This *IS* theft. You are REMOVING something from someone they can't get
> back. With copyright violation you're not removing anything, you're simply
> copying it.
Those Maximalists have gone out of control recently. I actually rely on
copyright limits so that I can listen to plenty of music. Nancy Sinatra
actually made me rethink listening to her dad because she's among the big
pushers for this stupid law ('radio tax' too), which means she's just trying
to exploit the work of a deceased for endless benefit. Who's being paid for
merely listening to music from the 1940s?
Here's another thing. What are the chances of having a torrent of songs whose
copyrights have expired actually survive? They already intercept torrent s
blindly. They try to suffocate everything.
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