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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: 4, Informative) by choose another one on Friday April 24 2015, @04:18PM

    by choose another one (515) Subscriber Badge on Friday April 24 2015, @04:18PM (#174705)

    Life expectancy gives a misleading impression because it is (was) heavily skewed by high infant and child mortality.

    For instance in medieval Britain life expectancy _at_ _birth_ was about 30 - less than half what it is now. However, if you reached the age of 21 (and might be publishing something) then male life expectancy was over 60. By 1700s it would be likely have been higher still, definitely a lot more than half what it is now.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 24 2015, @06:29PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 24 2015, @06:29PM (#174791)

    So for all we have spent on the medical field all we got was much fewer dead babies and 15 years to enjoy arthritis and altimeters?

    On the low end it is fantastic. On the high end, as someone who has taken care of relatives lingering on for as much as 20 years past what could be considered a life worth living, I am not at all prepared for those "benefits".

    • (Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Saturday April 25 2015, @02:07AM

      by Joe Desertrat (2454) on Saturday April 25 2015, @02:07AM (#174921)

      So for all we have spent on the medical field all we got was much fewer dead babies and 15 years to enjoy arthritis and altimeters?

      To be fair, it is kind of fun seeing how high up you have climbed.