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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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 04 2018, @03:28AM
List of third parties in US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_party_(United_States) [wikipedia.org] Mind you, those are just the current third parties; it doesn't include the ones that were tried and disbanded after their failure.
We are not going to vote our way out of this. We are not going to raise some new party and capture the reigns of government.
Our country was founded by people meeting the armed representatives of the legitimate government on the field of battle and blowing their brains out. Not even a hundred years after that, two sections of our country met on the field of battle and blew each other's brains out. In both instances, everyone had already tried everything they could think of other than fighting, before the fighting. Still there was the blowing out of brains.
Time for round three, I'm afraid. (I'd love to be wrong.)