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[Congresswoman] Sheila Jackson-Lee submitted a House Resolution honoring Frankie Knuckles, the pioneering House DJ (and, here, we no longer mean "House of Representatives") who passed away last year. Such resolutions are pretty typical and a nice honor, if fairly meaningless overall. Still, it seems somewhat bizarre that in a resolution honoring Knuckles, who won the first ever "Remixer of the Year" Grammy back in 1998, that Jackson-Lee used it as a reason to argue for stronger copyright protections.
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Congress Will Create Stronger Copyright Laws in Honor of DJ Who Won First 'Remix' Grammy
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TOO BAD YOU CAN'T BUY a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin
real fast and freak everybody out.
-- Jack Handey, The New Mexican, 1988.
(Score: 2) by davester666 on Friday June 12 2015, @04:36AM
I just love his song. I know, I'll give him another 20 years of royalties after he dies. Life + 90.
Life + 90 for everyone!
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Friday June 12 2015, @01:07PM
Life + 90 for everyone!
Why? In the US, copyright was written into the constitution to ensure that new works would be created so they would go into the public domain. I'm not likely to write any more books after I'm dead, nor can I spend any proceeds for that book.
20 years extendable another 15 is reasonable, also any work out of print over 5 years should enter the public domain. A database of copyrights should be set up so one can see if a work is public domain or not.
My next book depends on the public domain. I would have included Murray Leinster's "A Logic Named Joe" but I can't find out if its copyright was renewed between 1964 and 1966.
Software copyrights should only be for 5 years. I registered two copyrights for software in 1984, the hardware is long obsolete and unobtainable. Why are they still covered? Also, only the source code should be covered; I wrote the source code, not the compiled executable.
As Mr. Bumble said long ago, "the law is an arse".
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2015, @01:32PM
Especially after you're dead, you've got more than enough time to write books! ;-)
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday June 12 2015, @01:15PM
Life plus 90 is the kind of sentence murderers, rapists, and pedophiles used to get. Today artists get that, instead of criminals? What is the world coming to?