EU retroactively extends musical copyrights
95 years for musical works
THE EU'S aging rockers will be able to collect royalties on music they made when they were kids under an EU plan to extend the copyright terms on musical recordings for another 45 years.
Currently musicians can only collect royalties on recordings they made 50 years ago. That was probably OK when popular beat combo artists were not expected to live beyond 30 years, but these days they are living well into their 70s.
Bass player Herbie Flowers said that he played on a couple of very successful tracks, including Lou Reed’s 'Walk On The Wild Side' and David Bowie’s 'Space Oddity,' and it would be unfair for him to stop receiving income for this performance after 50 years - mainly because he's still alive.
It will not mean an increase in music prices as few fifty-year-old recordings sell in any real volume, and most of these performers' pay comes from radio performance payments now.
It looks like the change will only net an average old timer €150 to €2,000 per year. µ
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Comments
real people pirates
in trading you calculate profit in certain time. after that simply product will cheap or dissapear. but in music, movie, they can robbing people forever with ridicilous time because they real stup** person. they thing what they create it's sooo important??? bull***t. art not giving world anything than illusion! they not worth to deserve sooo much!if you moaning about pirates! the real pirates is "COPYRIGHT MONOPOLY". dont say about free trade, global trade. from NOW, COPYRIGHT became real killer of innovation.
Time will tell.....
Hacks
The hacks in the EU sound seem to be as bad as our hacks here in the USA. Why not just give the greedy as musicians control of their crap until the old bastards die, then it's up for grabs for everyone. Problem solved forever and it was so easy to do.Idiots!
To please their masters
Perhaps the pussies in the European Parliament could actually illustrate with a few thousand cases that the money really goes to the artists and tell us what fraction of the cash reaches the artists. That should be easy, if we believe the claim that the expected bonanza is going to reach countless artists. Quite frankly, I believe that the pussies in the European Parliament only had to please their masters in Hollywood and Washington DC, once again, or face the music. These pussies are also changing the role of ISPs in the EU, again with the same excuses to please their masters. In doing so they cripple an infrastructure of paramount importance in Europe.What?!
I'm all for artists being paid for their work... But 95 years for copyright? I wish i could work hard for 10 years when i was young and then live off the royalties for the rest of my life.I mean, 50 years already allowed them to do this. Say you started from the age of 10 - you're set till 60 on your oldest songs... Does the copyright expire when the artist dies? Or does it get passed on to their next of kin? I think it's stupid for them to get 95 years on someone who's been dead for 50 years of that...
Misleading
The article is misleading as it makes it look as if the artists are the primary benificiaries of this extension. They are not. It's the record companies, and of course the politicians being bribed by them.The next of kin thing question is really quite moot as most artists don't own the rights to their own songs anyway.
Bizarre
As an engineer, if I invent something, my patent would only be for 20 years. Why can't I get a 95 year patent with almost infinite extensions?Good article - shame about Drashek
To 'anti_copyright_monopoly' A.K.A. Baron von Drashek:Why don't you bugger-off and never, ever say another thing?
What you 'try' to say is utter bollocks, ill-conceived, badly thought out and a complete bag of $hite!
You are really starting to do my head-in.
Why don't you come forward and tell us all here exactly what your predicament is? That is, are you in an asylum/home where they give you access to the internet? Are you a manic depressive? Are you completely stupid, but barely able to type? Is there really life on other planets? - if so, which one are you from?
My wife thinks I'm being hard on you and you probably really need help. I, however, am a bit more right-wing when it comes to an idiot like you mucking-up my air space (and bollicks to freedom of speech in this case!) - do us all a tremedous favour by quietly crawling into a corner and dying.
Thank you.
Keeping musicians in control
I don't care about the money they make, but have yet to hear a rap version of a Beatles or Abba track and would pay unlimited amounts to keep it so!@Dave The Rave
Um, Dave, I agree that Ultie Von Drashek, or whatever is his flavor of the day, is supremely annoying in whatever he writes - unless his totally smashed in which case he suddenly becomes comprehensible.Yet, for all the annoyance, you cannot accuse Drashek of writing the words that anti_copyright_monopoly wrote.
Indeed, if Drashek is incomprehensible, he still writes impeccably - which is not the case of anti_copyright_monopoly which, by using constructions such as "they not worth to deserve sooo much! " is clearly either not a fluent English speaker, or a student in the famed US or UK school system.
Drashek does not make basic mistakes such as "they can robbing" or "dont say". Drashek knows about apostrophes and grammar.
That said, I would very much prefer Drashek to disappear anyway.
But I'd also like to win the Lottery.