[ox-en] (Fwd) Copyright extension

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From:	tOM Trottier <[email protected]>
To:	consultations-vppm1TVqICArkoqX8K+gVCwD8/[email protected]
Subject:	Copyright extension
CC:	mgeist-870xbScz6v+w5LPnMra/[email protected]
Reply to:	[email protected]
Date:	Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:18:45 -0500


Sirs/Mesdames,

The UK Gowers Review of Intellectual Property concluded:

    Economic evidence indicates that the length of protection for copyright works 
    already far exceeds the incentives required to invest in new works. Boldrin and 
    Levine estimate that the optimal length of copyright is at most seven 
    years. Posner and Landes, eminent legal economists in the field, argue that the 
    extra incentives to create as a result of term extension are likely to be very 
    small beyond a term of 25 years.

    Furthermore, it is not clear that extending term from 50 years to 70 or 95 years 
    would remedy the unequal treatment of performers and producers from 
    composers, who benefit from life plus 70 years protection. This is because it is 
    not clear that extension of term would benefit musicians and performers very 
    much in practice.

    The CIPIL report that the Review commissioned states that: "most people seem 
    to assume that any extended term would go to record companies rather than 
    performers: either because the record company already owns the copyright or 
    because the performer will, as a standard term of a recording agreement, have 
    purported to assign any extended term that might be created to the copyright 
    holder".

(my reformatting)

Why rob the public to benefit private companies? The real creators aren't 
benefiting - especially after they're dead! Intellectual property should not be a 
corporate asset but a public asset with some incentive for creators, not for 
squatters.

Please work to reduce the length of copyright to seven years past the death of the 
creator. For minor children of the creator, perhaps this could be extended to age 
21, if they are receiving all the royalties.

tOM Trottier
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