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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   
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?

• Re:Like the party, but can't vote for their candid Re:Like the party, but can't vote for their candid (Score: 3, Insightful) by moondrake on Friday April 24 2015, @10:28PM

  by moondrake (2658) on Friday April 24 2015, @10:28PM (#174868)

  People vote too much on a candidate though, instead of strategically. Your vote does not even matter. And on the far off chance that he would actually make it, he could not possibly be worse than some of the other candidates. Think of it as an experiment. And if the greens do get more than the usual amount of votes, it just might bring some change (because the bigger parties will start worrying).

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• Re:Like the party, but can't vote for their candid (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 26 2015, @05:01AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 26 2015, @05:01AM (#175272)

  People vote too much on a candidate though

  Are you sure? Most people mindlessly vote for a party from what I see.

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