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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: 3, Funny) by SpockLogic on Friday April 24 2015, @07:29PM

    by SpockLogic (2762) on Friday April 24 2015, @07:29PM (#174809)

    I've been wondering what a Green and Pirate party merger would look like.

    Sea-sickness was the first thing to come to mind.

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