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Congress Will Create Stronger Copyright Laws in Honor of DJ Who Won First 'Remix' Grammy

posted by n1 on Friday June 12 2015, @12:58AM   Printer-friendly
from the irony-is-dead dept.

"gewg_" writes:

TechDirt reports:

[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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  • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Friday June 12 2015, @01:07PM

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Friday June 12 2015, @01:07PM (#195375) Homepage Journal

    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

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2015, @01:32PM (#195386)

    I'm not likely to write any more books after I'm dead

    Especially after you're dead, you've got more than enough time to write books! ;-)