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Re: [News] Intellectual Monopolies Kill Art, Give Welfare to Lazy Sons of Singers



Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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Once More, With Feeling: Copyright Is Not A Welfare System For Musicians

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| Performance rights in the UK only last 50 years, so music performed in the | 60s has started to move into the public domain, and some musicians are | freaking out. They first tried to push for an extension using some famous | musicians, like Cliff Richards and Ringo Starr, but later realized that | people didn't have any sympathy for aging millionaire rockers, demanding more | money. So, after that proposal failed, they switched tactics, talking about | how poor studio musicians needed copyright extension as a form of welfare `----

http://techdirt.com/articles/20081126/0807212958.shtml

I think this ridiculous argument can be summed up by the last sentence in that article:

"The UK government should reject this blatant and unfair renegotiation of terms, and tell the musicians if they want to ask someone for a handout, why not turn to the record labels who apparently didn't pay them enough in the first place."


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