Music recording copyright petition

[ewt]

Here. Go sign it. Then tell everyone you know.

Please.

Comments

[elmyra.livejournal.com]

Signed.

Out of interest, what do you think of the life + 70 years term on compositions, writing, etc.?

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

I think if anything we should be decreasing default copyright length rather than increasing it.

[elmyra.livejournal.com]

Fully agree. I just can't see any logical or moral justification for anything more than life.

[sci.livejournal.com]

Signed! And passing it along..

[reddragdiva]

This needs 1000+ signatures. Push as hard as you can.

[mstevens.livejournal.com]

Done.

[vashti.livejournal.com]

Done.

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[sci.livejournal.com]

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[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

Didn't get around to responding to this beforehand...

I haven't signed this (yet)... On the one hand I think life plus seventy years is wrong... but on the other, I think fifty years is wrong too. Cliff Richard has been complaining that it means his income from his earlier works is going to dry up, and whilst I disagree with his contention that copyright should be life plus ninety years, I agree with his original point.

Now, one could ask why he should be able to continue gaining income from something he did fifty years ago, but I think to an extent that is another question. This is how our copyright system works: artists get royalties for something they did in the past.

From my philosophical perspective I think both literary and recorded copyright should be no more than life plus twenty-five years. I agree strongly with the contention that works should be able to pass eventually into the public domain; but I disagree with that that copyright should last so little time artists loss copyright on their own works in their own lifetime.

Thoughts?