My apologies for the relative quiet here @ Copyfight. For the past week or so, I've been blogging at Deep Links about e-voting. Now I'm in recovery from the election. Looking for the America in my heart.
A bit of good news for copyfighters: As Larry points out, 5 out of 6 candidates backed by IPac won. For this I am grateful.
Category: Misc.
No problem Donna, take your time. :-)
Here's perhaps some interesting news: Cliff Richard wants a recording rights term extension in the E.U. (Google News for more). Could this have anything to do with the fact that Sir Cliff recorded his first single 46 years ago, in 1958, and that recording rights in the E.U. last for fifty years after the date of the event?
As one observer pointed out: copyright is a contract between the public and the artist. Cliff Richard has been reaping for almost fifty years. Now that the time is arriving that he has to uphold his end of the deal, he wants to change the rules of the contract.
The deadline of the E.U. Commission's consultation on its plans to harmonize copyright directives has passed, and the Commission's staff should soon be putting up the replies from 'interested parties'. It would be interesting to see if Cliff Richard/EMI is among them.
i "love" that term.. "harmonize"
i guess in political-ese that means "screw the public"
wipo, ausfta, the eucd.. all "harmonizing" copyright by giving large corporations the power to micromanage people's personal lives and regulate the technology sector because theyre just not rich enough yet.. (their mclaren sports cars are only solid gold, not platinum, they need PLATINUM!!!)
Argh! The link to the EU Consultation page is http://europa.eu.int/ comm/internal_market/ copyright/review/consultation_en.htm. My apologies for posting without checking.
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