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posted by chromas on Friday August 03 2018, @06:02PM   Printer-friendly
from the copywrong dept.

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: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03 2018, @07:13PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03 2018, @07:13PM (#716904)

    Republicans are the most corrupt?

    Nope. Not the way I see it.

    OP gave his opinion, and I gave mine.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03 2018, @07:55PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03 2018, @07:55PM (#716938)

    That is fine, but if people regard your opinion as trolling whataboutism then expect to get modded down. Or do we need to make a safe space where your opinions are respected by everybody and no one is allowed to criticize them?

    You realize anyone can click the + button and see what you wrote yes? Maybe some other person will mod you up because they find the troll mod unfair, maybe not. Let the feedback from the community guide your method of communication.

    Maybe if your ideas seem to be unfairly modded down all the time you might just be wrong? Naaaah, no amount of discussion has swayed your single minded dogma even a little bit.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03 2018, @07:58PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03 2018, @07:58PM (#716941)

      That's the deal.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03 2018, @09:29PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03 2018, @09:29PM (#716981)

        MOD THIS SOYBOY DOWN! Don't stop till we reach -aleph!

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by RandomFactor on Friday August 03 2018, @11:04PM

      by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Friday August 03 2018, @11:04PM (#717018) Journal

      "Let the feedback from the community guide your method of communication."

      Changing views for community acceptance (vs. non-fallacious counterpoint) is called an echo chamber. Disagree.

      Changing wording and presentation to avoid getting whapped by people who don't like people being jerks on the forum I can get behind however. Agree.

      (depending on what you actually meant)

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      В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Saturday August 04 2018, @05:21PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Saturday August 04 2018, @05:21PM (#717256) Journal

    OP gave his opinion, and I gave mine.

    And notice that instead of being modded down you were modded up.

    It's when you engage in bad-faith arguments, fallacy, and lies that you get modded down.