Canada copyright law: stronger, better than US’s
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November 27th, 2007 at 8:34 am
“Canada has a shorter copyright term, namely the internationally accepted Berne Convention norm of life + 50 years.”
Which is still way too long.
November 27th, 2007 at 11:51 am
I don’t think copyright term length really matters.
But I think the royolties should be on a sliding scale during the term and should be set by law, in this manner the creator can still generat some money from his/her work but at the same time not burden the world with everlasting high prices.
Also when the copyright term is over the creators names should be recognised when ever their works are used.
I think the biggest issue we need to work on is ‘Fare Use’, that should be in our bill of rights written in stone.
Any thing used for educational purposes should be considered legal. Private copying for no financial gain should be legal.
On the other hand P2P Downloading should be further examined. Perhaps the music industry should take a couple steps back and take a really good look at this technology. It cheaper than making CD’s which end up in land fills after they are scratched to kingdom come, same goes for DVD’s.
I do not agree with persons who download music and never consider buying a legal copy if they like it or never even delete the music they don’t like.
I have downloaded some music to replace damaged CD’s that I could not rip into mp3’s due to the scraches, the rest I’ve ripped from my own library.
I think it is time for the musicians and artists to speek up, and for the RIAA/CRIA to listen. Maybe the RIAA and CRIA have out lived their usefullness for the artists and needs to be disbanded