Dead Musicians Write No Songs... But They Sure Can Sign Petitions Protecting Copyright Extension
from the funny-how-that-works dept
Remember yesterday when we were talking about the petition a bunch of musicians and record industry types supposedly signed in the UK in favor of extending copyrights on recordings beyond 50 years? Larry Lessig has noticed that at least a few of the "signatures" happen to come from musicians who are quite dead already, which might make you question the legitimacy of the other signatures as well. As Lessig notes, however, perhaps he was wrong in pointing out that extending copyright after the music has been made has no incentive on songs created 50 years ago. After all, if dead men can sign petitions from the grave, perhaps they can write new 50-year-old songs.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Heh. that's nothin'...
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The Simpsons
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The British Phonographic Industry
Next thing, you will be telling us is the RIAA are a bunch of liars also . .
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Erasing old songs...
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not dead yet
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Dead Signatures
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How can you say that dead musicians write no songs
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Without copy protection,
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dead musicians signing copyright petition
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The Final Ripoff!
there's less of them every year,
you can still hear Beethoven,
but there's not much of him left to hear...
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-dave chappelle
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This just rights the wrongs
EP
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spelling error
"After all, if dead mean" Dead man.
Hope you see this and correct it.
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Re: spelling error
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Elvis is not dead
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Dead Musicians signing on
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they have some programms for design and some videos! very useful!
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