Some interesting facts have emerged to throw yet more light on greed recording industry Cartel groups who have been using their capital to undermine democracy, is this a new investment ideal, pay a politician now and get 45 years of revenue for free ?
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080908-80-of-artists-would-get-30year-from-copyright-extension.htmlThe EU is considering a plan to extend musical copyrights for another 45 years, ostensibly to help out aging performers who are being cut off when the current 50-year terms expire. But those musicians (can someone introduce them to the concept of saving for retirement?) won't see much of the new cash, according to the UK's Open Rights Group. Most performers will make less than €30 a year, even as major labels and big stars take far more.
Given the EU's proposal, ORG can't help but wonder if facts weren't the primary determinant in choosing to go forward with a term extension fight; the evidence "strongly suggests that [the Commission] has been swayed by special-interest lobbying," says the group
When influence is peddled to provide a false monopoly for those already squeezing artists dry with thier 90% take on everything it will surely be a small matter of time before this type of blatant corruption is revealed in public, are you all happy to continue paying for something you have the right to listen to for free under the copyright law ?
Any proposal put forward to rip off the public will see the collapse of the entire copyright structure as it cannot be reasonably argued an deal continues to exist with the populace if it is totally one sided and in such circumstance it would fall into mass disrepute, who after all is going to respect any law paid for in hard cash by vested interest groups that rips off joe public to the tune of
hundreds of Billions.
