It's election season in the UK, and the Green Party's policy document has been coming under scrutiny recently. In it is a desire to reduce copyright term to 14 years (not life + 14 years, but 14 years from publication).
Unsurprisingly, this has received a bit of a backlash from various parties.
There's no chance the Green Party will form the next government, so this is all academic, but is this a sensible idea? Are people overreacting?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by lhsi on Friday April 24 2015, @02:48PM
if they get a reasonable number of votes, then it encourages someone more experienced to stand next time.
Also, if they get enough votes for the other parties to notice, they might consider changing their stance on some issues in order to attempt to gain back lost votes.