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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 24 2015, @05:44PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 24 2015, @05:44PM (#174756)

    I don't see why. There is much 14 year old open source software that I would be interested in using, most software dates quickly, games are a bit of an exception, but there aren't many good open source games. And if anyone can make anything out of open source software that is 14 years old by closing it up and improving it, then good luck to them.

    And also, the source code to 14 year old code would be out of copyright along with the binaries, you'd just need to find a copy of it. I don't think it would be right to compel anyone to provide a copy of it though.