Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
The House of Representatives has combined the largely good Music Modernization Act with the CLASSICS Act, which would add new royalties and penalties to recordings made before 1972, without giving anything back to the public. That same mistake was replicated in the Senate with S. 2823.
The CLASSICS Act would extend federal copyright restrictions and penalties to sound recordings made between 1923 and 1972, making it so that songs recorded in that era would, for the first time, not be able to be streamed online without a license. Currently, various state laws govern this relationship, and those laws don't give record labels control over streaming.
The CLASSICS Act gives nothing back to the public. It doesn't increase access to pre-1972 recordings, which are already played regularly on Internet radio. And it doesn't let the public use these recordings without permission any sooner. While some recording artists and their heirs will receive money under the act, the main beneficiaries will be recording companies, who will control the use of classic recordings for another fifty years. Important recordings from the 1920s, 30s, and 40s won't enter the public domain until 2067. And users of recordings that are already over 90 years old will face the risk of federal copyright's massive, unpredictable penalties.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by Snotnose on Friday August 03 2018, @06:16PM (2 children)
why it doesn't bother to get my older music via bittorrent.
Why shouldn't we judge a book by it's cover? It's got the author, title, and a summary of what the book's about.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Friday August 03 2018, @06:38PM (1 child)
Pirating old recordings is an immoral act.
After this law has passed, buying new issues of old recordings is a VERY immoral act.
I guess we need a new generation of artists monkeying the previous work. Which is nothing new, as most of those artists freely helped themselves of existing ideas for their works.
Only, this time, artists, cut the middlemen out. The sooner they die the freer we return. And I underline "return".
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 04 2018, @11:52AM
They don't cut out the middlemen, the middlemen have just changed face and name.