RE: [dvd-discuss] [Off topic] European Copyrights Expiring on Recordings From 1950's

["Dean Sanchez" <DSANCHEZ(at)fcci-group.com>]

Neil Turkewitz's quote,``The import of those products would be an act of piracy'', is a classic RIAA sound bite.  In its eyes, even a legal recording is piracy if they don't make money off of it.  This is even worse than  the executive that said that leaving the room during a television commercial was stealing.  What twisted ethics the Copyright Industry has.

-----Original Message-----
From: Kurt Hockenbury [mailto:khockenb@stevens-tech.edu]
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 6:31 PM
To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
Subject: [dvd-discuss] [Off topic] European Copyrights Expiring on
Recordings From 1950's


Record companies are upset because European copyrights are exiring.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/02/international/02CND_COPY.html

"Copyright protection lasts only 50 years in Europe compared to 95 years in
the United States, even if the recordings were originally made and released in
America."

Obviously, the US needs to "harmonize" our copyright law and change our
expiration to 50 years.  :-)