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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: 5, Interesting) by AndyTheAbsurd on Friday April 24 2015, @04:38PM
The science fiction authors have most likely read Spider Robinson's "Melancholy Elephants [spiderrobinson.com]" (Audio version, MP3 format [libsyn.com] if you don't want to get caught reading fiction at work). It makes wonderful points about the difficulties that accompany the path of infinite extension of copyright that we seem to be going down. Personally, I think that the entire story should be read, aloud, in chambers, with attendance required, before ANY vote is taken on altering copyright.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by martyb on Saturday April 25 2015, @03:14AM
Thank you so very much for that link! I found the story itself to be quite thought-provoking and am downloading the MP3 even as I right this. I concur with your assessment that this should be mandatory reading prior to any vote being taken on altering copyright.
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