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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
The House of Representatives has combined the largely good Music Modernization Act with the CLASSICS Act, which would add new royalties and penalties to recordings made before 1972, without giving anything back to the public. That same mistake was replicated in the Senate with S. 2823.
The CLASSICS Act would extend federal copyright restrictions and penalties to sound recordings made between 1923 and 1972, making it so that songs recorded in that era would, for the first time, not be able to be streamed online without a license. Currently, various state laws govern this relationship, and those laws don't give record labels control over streaming.
The CLASSICS Act gives nothing back to the public. It doesn't increase access to pre-1972 recordings, which are already played regularly on Internet radio. And it doesn't let the public use these recordings without permission any sooner. While some recording artists and their heirs will receive money under the act, the main beneficiaries will be recording companies, who will control the use of classic recordings for another fifty years. Important recordings from the 1920s, 30s, and 40s won't enter the public domain until 2067. And users of recordings that are already over 90 years old will face the risk of federal copyright's massive, unpredictable penalties.
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by Bot on Friday August 03 2018, @07:41PM (3 children)
The proper stance for any self respecting citizen is to belittle their lazy ineffective servants called politicians no matter the color. The problem with your post, is that you said the democrats, while the topic shows reps stealing money from people by making them pay for cultural assets. Those songs were not created in a vacuum. It is unfair to pay the COMPOSER (note the term, music is composed not created) for having composed preexisting ideas and barring others to reinterpret it for free. It is unfair to pay someone else.
Copyright was a SUSPENSION of NATURAL RIGHTS. An indefinite suspension is theft. You wouldn't download a suspension, no?
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03 2018, @07:56PM (2 children)
The rest of your reply is pretty much drivel that does nothing to help build a stable, prosperous society.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Friday August 03 2018, @08:19PM
>The rest of your reply is pretty much drivel that does nothing to help build a stable, prosperous society.
How many centuries before the big rightful guys (whom you are handing all the control to) start doing that? Don't tell me they are doing their best because it is demonstrably not so.
Never mind, back to topic, the corporate labels.
Shall I post some youtube music videos of the media behemoths that are "helping building a stable, prosperous society"? Sites like vigilantcitizen have the cream of the crop.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03 2018, @09:31PM
That is funny, I was thinking the same thing about every single one of your posts. All you've got is the sentiment of pro-freedom.