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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: 2) by mcgrew on Saturday April 25 2015, @09:52PM

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Saturday April 25 2015, @09:52PM (#175178) Homepage Journal

    Actually, the money's in touring, not record sales. The labels get most of the money for records.

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