Michaelwagner Wrote: > But their families might. > > Regardless of how you personally feel about it, society as a whole > decided, not just for music but for all copyright issues, decades ago, > that copyrights last for some period of time after the copyright holder > has died (I think it's 50 years). > > Notice that has nothing to do with the artist. The copyright holder is > the person who wrote the music, the words or both. S/He might even be > alive, even though the performer is dead. It often happens that they > don't die at the same time :-)
first - i believe it's life plus 70 years for works published after 1977 and 95 years if it's a corporate work. 'as a society' in 1998 'we' passed copyright term extension act which extended the term by another 20 years from the previous 50. the same 1998 act works created in 1923 or after will enter the public domain until 2019 and in many cases that date is even in question. have something create before 1978 but not registired for copyright protection? don't worry it's covered in the same 1998 act and will not enter the public domain until 2047. all of this legislation is private and corporate welfare plain and simple and at the expense of our society and culture. perhaps someone could tell me how this benefits the general public and why we, the public, should subsidize the next 3 generations or more of a particular artist? -- jackaninny ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jackaninny's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=273 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18642 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
