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UK Green Party Proposes 14-year Copyright Term - Artists are not Amused

posted by LaminatorX on Friday April 24 2015, @02:23PM   Printer-friendly
from the useful-progress dept.

xorsyst writes:

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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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by wantkitteh on Friday April 24 2015, @04:03PM

    by wantkitteh (3362) on Friday April 24 2015, @04:03PM (#174702) Homepage Journal

    ...oh, and the whole F&F franchise has a total production budget so far of $844m, it's made $3.5b box so far. I don't think the argument that Hollywood will fall apart if the copyright terms are reduced holds a single drop of water. Couldn't say about other content producers though.

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