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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: 2) by HiThere on Friday April 24 2015, @05:27PM
That only works if DRM is prohibited. If copyright is limited in that way, and DRM is legal, then they can sell things that only work as long as the seller keeps a "token" site running...and you can only play the work if you've got an internet connection and the seller's "token" site is running. Some games have already done this, and become unusable while those that bought them are still playing.
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