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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, Insightful) by Anal Pumpernickel on Friday April 24 2015, @06:06PM

    by Anal Pumpernickel (776) on Friday April 24 2015, @06:06PM (#174772)

    That's short-term thinking. If you only think about the very next election, the candidates will only continue to get more and more evil.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by frojack on Friday April 24 2015, @06:11PM

    by frojack (1554) on Friday April 24 2015, @06:11PM (#174779) Journal

    Seems to me, that short term voting is exactly what is needed to remove evil elected officials.

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