Europeans: I want YOU to sign this petition

Sound Copyright

So the content mafia is going to push for an extension of the current copyright term of 50 years. In my book, fifty years is more than enough. In yours too? Sign the petition!

Copyright is a bargain. In exchange for their investment in creating and distributing sound recordings to the public, copyright holders are granted a limited monopoly during which are allowed to control the use of those recordings. This includes the right to pursue anyone who uses their recordings without permission. But when this time is up, these works join Goethe, Hugo and Shakespeare in the proper place for all human culture – the public domain. In practice, because of repeated term extensions and the relatively short time in which sound recording techniques have been available, there are no public domain sound recordings.

Full text at soundcopyright.eu

About this entry

You’re currently reading Europeans: I want YOU to sign this petition, one of the many eloquent and thoughtful entries on breakthesystem.org.

It was published on 03.03.08 at 2pm.
Before this article, I wrote an entry called Neil Gaiman (sorta) Reznoring. After this article, I wrote something called Reznor… reznoring..
This entry has the following tags:
,