{"id":192849,"date":"2009-02-13T18:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T23:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/13\/the-eu-gets-a-major-case-of-the-stupids\/"},"modified":"2009-02-13T18:39:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T23:39:00","slug":"the-eu-gets-a-major-case-of-the-stupids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/13\/the-eu-gets-a-major-case-of-the-stupids\/","title":{"rendered":"The EU Gets a Major Case of the Stupids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European parliament&#8217;s legal affairs committee just <a href=\"http:\/\/euobserver.com\/9\/27606\">voted to extend copyright on music performances to 95 years<\/a>.  It was 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>It has to go to the full parliament, but it&#8217;s likely to pass next month.<\/p>\n<p>Stupid.<\/p>\n<p>This won&#8217;t create any more performances, people don&#8217;t perform in the expectation of revenues on year 51, so it won&#8217;t create any more music, but what it <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">will<\/span> do is ensure that obscure works will be lost over time, because the difficulties of preserving and reproducing them will be too great.<\/p>\n<p>Under the rules that they are proposing&#8230;.Hell under the rules that they have <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">now<\/span>, Shakespeare&#8217;s works would have been <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">forever lost<\/span> to decay.<\/p>\n<p>They would be gone, but we have to protect the f^%$ing mouse for another 45  f^%$ing years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European parliament&#8217;s legal affairs committee just voted to extend copyright on music performances to 95 years. It was 50 years. It has to go to the full parliament, but it&#8217;s likely to pass next month. Stupid. This won&#8217;t create any more performances, people don&#8217;t perform in the expectation of revenues on year 51, so &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1134,984,1109,1020,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright","category-europe","category-ip","category-legislation","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}