industry kills music
as golem.de reports, the german music industry has now demanded to extends the copyright protection for music to a 95 year period (now: 50 years). they justify their claim with other countries like th U.S. having a longer copyright period already, many artists would be losing their protection.
As mentioned in an earlier post about lawrence lessigs book free culture - how big media uses technology and law to lock down culture and control creativity., the only reason for the music industry to demand longer copyright protection is to control as much of thecultural production as possible, to protect their established industry.
The chaos computer club has now started a campaign (german) asking people to stop buying music from the major labels. The music industry has missed the information age train, and is now using the money from CD sales to file law suits against users of file sharing networks and advertise campaigns against sharing music, using false statements to scare p2p users.
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