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?
(Score: 2) by hash14 on Friday April 24 2015, @11:05PM
The studios/labels/publishing houses don't want to have to compete against their own back catalog.
And for good reason! Everything they come out with now is complete crap!