Rock veterans win copyright fight
Found on BBC News on Monday, 12 September 2011
On Monday, the EU Council voted to extend the copyright on sound recordings from 50 to 70 years.
Announcing the ruling, the council of the European Union said: "Performers generally start their careers young and the current term of protection of 50 years often does not protect their performances for their entire lifetime.
"Therefore, some performers face an income gap at the end of their lifetimes."
Everybody is equal, so I want the same. I want to write a few programs and get revenues from them for the next 70 years so I don't have to work when I'm old. Or an architect who designs a public building and gets revenues for the rest of his life. Seriously, this ruling is simply stupid. If those dried-up and aging rockstars still want to be able to pay for groupies and cocaine, they have to work. Like everybody else.