Comments on: Parliament to screw up music copyright? http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2007/05/17/parliament-screws-up-music-copyright/ A barrister gossips & rants on intellectual property law, the legal system and civil liberties. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:54:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: GeekLawyer’s Blog » Up yours Cliff! http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2007/05/17/parliament-screws-up-music-copyright/#comment-15673 GeekLawyer’s Blog » Up yours Cliff! Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:18:42 +0000 http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2007/05/17/parliament-screws-up-music-copyright/#comment-15673 [...] Geeklawyer that the government has told the music industry to shove its mechanical copyright term extension request up its [...] […] Geeklawyer that the government has told the music industry to shove its mechanical copyright term extension request up its […]

]]> By: BambisMusings - Musings from a little deer? » House of Commons culture committee rules in favour of copyright term extension on sound recordings http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2007/05/17/parliament-screws-up-music-copyright/#comment-15196 BambisMusings - Musings from a little deer? » House of Commons culture committee rules in favour of copyright term extension on sound recordings Fri, 06 Jul 2007 22:19:39 +0000 http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2007/05/17/parliament-screws-up-music-copyright/#comment-15196 [...] fiasco of passing this highly excessive ruling, GeekLawyer responded with the following posting: Parliament to screw up music copyright? where they stated; Thanks to Harry Metcalfe for alerting Geeklawyer to the news, greeted with weary [...] […] fiasco of passing this highly excessive ruling, GeekLawyer responded with the following posting: Parliament to screw up music copyright? where they stated; Thanks to Harry Metcalfe for alerting Geeklawyer to the news, greeted with weary […]

]]> By: James http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2007/05/17/parliament-screws-up-music-copyright/#comment-10859 James Mon, 21 May 2007 09:24:59 +0000 http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2007/05/17/parliament-screws-up-music-copyright/#comment-10859 Eik, Rousseau would be turning in his grave at this notion of ownership of ideas. Eik,

Rousseau would be turning in his grave at this notion of ownership of ideas.

]]> By: Mark A http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2007/05/17/parliament-screws-up-music-copyright/#comment-10402 Mark A Fri, 18 May 2007 11:58:17 +0000 http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2007/05/17/parliament-screws-up-music-copyright/#comment-10402 An interesting comment on this very subject can be found on this 'ere blog. http://xrrf.blogspot.com/2007/05/bpi-mtv-please-them-please-them.html Mark An interesting comment on this very subject can be found on this ‘ere blog.
http://xrrf.blogspot.com/2007/05/bpi-mtv-please-them-please-them.html

Mark

]]> By: ManxStef http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2007/05/17/parliament-screws-up-music-copyright/#comment-10147 ManxStef Thu, 17 May 2007 23:09:20 +0000 http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2007/05/17/parliament-screws-up-music-copyright/#comment-10147 What's even more interesting is that Mr. Gower said in an interview with OUT-LAW that the economic data he saw even supported <i>reducing</i> the 50 year term, but that political realities prevented him from recommending this: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070430-gowers-i-took-the-politically-prudent-course-on-copyright-in-ip-report.html And now the bastards are up for extending it anyway, using the good old excuse of "harmonisation". I bet none of them even read Gower's IP Review, even though the the current government were the very ones who commissioned it. I guess it was just a token effort to appease the proletariat when they never had any intention of paying any attention to it. What annoys the hell out of me is that the public domain practically doesn't exist any more, with copyrights being extended to the point where once material <i>is</i> actually released it's no longer culturally relevant, entirely defeating the point of the creation of a "copy right" in the first place. (Which was, in my opinion, to encourage the creation of works by providing an artificial monopoly, but making sure that society as a whole would benefit from these works after the creator had time to derive a significant income from them.) Oh, to have it revert to 14 years + an optional 14 year extension, which is how copyright originally operated when it was created in the Statue of Anne. You can read it here: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/eurodocs/anne_1710.htm More history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright P.S. GeekLawyer, why does your comment system require Javascript to be enabled to add a comment? That's rubbish, please fix it. What’s even more interesting is that Mr. Gower said in an interview with OUT-LAW that the economic data he saw even supported reducing the 50 year term, but that political realities prevented him from recommending this:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070430-gowers-i-took-the-politically-prudent-course-on-copyright-in-ip-report.html

And now the bastards are up for extending it anyway, using the good old excuse of “harmonisation”. I bet none of them even read Gower’s IP Review, even though the the current government were the very ones who commissioned it. I guess it was just a token effort to appease the proletariat when they never had any intention of paying any attention to it.

What annoys the hell out of me is that the public domain practically doesn’t exist any more, with copyrights being extended to the point where once material is actually released it’s no longer culturally relevant, entirely defeating the point of the creation of a “copy right” in the first place. (Which was, in my opinion, to encourage the creation of works by providing an artificial monopoly, but making sure that society as a whole would benefit from these works after the creator had time to derive a significant income from them.)

Oh, to have it revert to 14 years + an optional 14 year extension, which is how copyright originally operated when it was created in the Statue of Anne. You can read it here:
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/eurodocs/anne_1710.htm

More history:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright

P.S. GeekLawyer, why does your comment system require Javascript to be enabled to add a comment? That’s rubbish, please fix it.

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