How copyright extension in sound recordings actually works

littleshoemaker Says:

Jan 16, 2009 - absolutely.

A60stock Says:

Jan 16, 2009 - The proposal smells of an industry in terminal decline catching at straws. It does sod all for struggling artists. Its a pity the EU has fallen for it. Its also a numbers game. The more who write to their MEPs complaining the better.

peewack Says:

Jan 16, 2009 - absolutely clear: alive musicians and the people loss.

Dynamoace Says:

Jan 16, 2009 - It should be mentioned that if a extension is made, it would also have a knock on effect elsewhere. Copyright would then be considered a joke, with a possibility that it would effect other economic areas as well. Good video about this, please users,reforms are needed, not dead horses.

MossHallJedi Says:

Jan 17, 2009 - Fergal Sharkey supports copyright extension and fronts a lot of industry debate on the subject. Perhaps he'd like to post a response to this?

homelessbones Says:

Jan 18, 2009 - It is possible to have a version with english subtitles to translate to spanish language??? I will to post but I can translate from english spoken Thanks. I'm musician

bimhimbim Says:

Jan 19, 2009 - Charlie McCreevy has to go. The proposal of the Commission is a huge scandal!

Evi1M4chine Says:

Jan 20, 2009 - I think that long before the 95 years, there will be no music companies anymore. Who needs them right now anyway? Production? Get a computer, your instrument(s), and the software. Marketing? Any marketing company can do that. Reproduction? Who needs physical media? Just put them on your web site and add paypal. Finito. And the average customer could not care less. He gets himself a file-sharing client, pulls the files, and is done with the case.

trollamos Says:

Jan 21, 2009 - I disagree with the ending, the public largely knows, and will be even surer if this passes, exactly who it is supposed to benefit. That's largely why we don't care about respecting copyright anymore.

artman40 Says:

Jan 23, 2009 - In theory, copyright lasts only in certain about time. In practice, it can be extended almost infinitely. Something must be done about that.

CursedExistence Says:

Jan 26, 2009 - well explained for everyone to understand. I will be showing this to all my non-IP-activist friends in order to spread some awareness.

BangMan007 Says:

Jan 31, 2009 - Geez, even 50 years is much too long to hold a copyright for sound recordings. As an example of how crazy this is, let's say there's a tradesman specializing in decorative iron work for homes. Why shouldn't he get paid every time the home gets sold within a 50 or 95-year period? After all, isn't every new owner of the home getting to benefit from his creation? It's all INSANE.

GegoXaren Says:

Feb 16, 2009 - +1 to this video

phaloxxx Says:

Feb 25, 2009 - this is just grossly unjust , why should people be giving 4x to the record label who just sits on there ass doing nothing....just stupid and wrong....greedy mother fuckers should be in jail

theerealgaryhill Says:

Mar 23, 2009 - These greedy dinosaurs have bled artists public dry for long enough. They go after youtube because it has money, nobody is making money from posting lo res vids, we do it because we love the music want to pass it on,this draconian policing of youtube is unworkable pisses off a large proportion of people but of course these greedy bastards only care about one thing,MONEY, as somebody who lost their channel,Account permanently disabled over this issue, I will actively oppose any extension.

Philidor777 Says:

May 31, 2009 - At 1:53 to be fair the people making the CD's, extracting the crude oil to make the plastic to make the CD and covers, the assembly maintainers, programmers (IE: recorders, adds the WMG or whatever label binary code to identify it as a WMG CD no matter what name you give the file extension), and custodians are covered in that 90%. However a good portion of that 90% still goes to overpaid executives.