[kevkrom]

If that’s what the law says, then good for the artists in figuring out how to regain control of their work. So, essentially, instead of selling the rights, they’re just leasing them for 35 years.

[KarlInOhio]

Look for the record companies to flood the market with cheap versions of the records they are about to lose rights to just to keep the bands from making much money on them afterward.

[dangerdoc]

Good news.

[The_Reader_David]

Well, good news after a fashion.

Quite frankly, all works should be public domain after 14 years, or 28 if the artist or author — not the publisher, not an artistic estate, the artist or author — requests an extension.

The last good copyright law was the Law of Queen Anne. The last good patent law was the Statute on Monopolies of 1624.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[Old Teufel Hunden]

"“In terms of all those big acts you name, the recording industry has made a gazillion dollars on those masters, more than the artists have,” said Don Henley, a founder both of the Eagles and the Recording Artists Coalition, which seeks to protect performers’ legal rights. “So there’s an issue of parity here, of fairness. This is a bone of contention, and it’s going to get more contentious in the next couple of years."

I find it quite hilarious that an ultra lefty like Don Henley speaks like a conservative on personal property rights when it comes to his and his friends music but wants all the rest of us to "share the wealth" in every other aspect of our lives. I will say I love the tune Boys of Summer. That's one point in his favor.

[fredhead]

Anyone remember when John Fogerty released his “Centerfield” album he was sued by Fantasy records for copyright infringement because he used a riff from an old CCR song THAT HE WROTE in one of the songs on “Centerfield?”

Whatever happened there?

[Buckeye McFrog]

ooops....that’s what happens when Congress rushes through a bill to please Disney and maintain their copyright on Mickey Mouse until the Second Coming

[PLMerite]

“...potentially leaving the labels out in the cold.”

Breaks my heart.

[Revolting cat!]

“Labels are people.”

[InvisibleChurch]

It’s too bad we’re not one nation under a groove.

[a fool in paradise]

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