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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?
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UK Green Party Proposes 14-year Copyright Term - Artists are not Amused
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by archshade on Friday April 24 2015, @03:22PM
Although the Greens and the pirates share many policies they do differ in some places (mainly priorities). This blog post has a reason from the Pirate side for not merging
https://www.pirateparty.org.uk/blogs/david-elston/why-im-not-green [pirateparty.org.uk]
I think a Green Pirate Party (Jolly Verde?) party has a bigger issue of trying to get the greens to mark themselves with the pirate brush. Many people who don't really have any understanding of what the Pirate Party is about nor the technological aspects of there stance. Lots of people think that pirate just want free (as in beer) stuff. People think that PP is against creative producers being able to charge for their materials. This is of course not true but lots of people see the whole pirate movement as an attempt to post-rationalise there downloading of content. Because of this I think PP needs to re-brand, I don't think that much needs to change just the name really. Hopefully then they can then do interviews without having to go though the whole film/video piracy debate all the time (as this talk takes longer than any slot they ever get).
The complete misunderstanding of the majority of PP policies (or ignorance of them and why they even matter) is shared by the majority of the electorate including most Green voters and party members. I can see no way that the Greens would join up with PP as they just don't understand what PP are truly about.