Copyright Board of Canada recently approved new fees to play recorded music at large gatherings, inc - Polidicks

1) Compose your own music. 2) Play it somewhere. 3) Copyrights mafia sends you a bill. 4) Sue them because they're violating your copyrights. 5) Paradox. 6) ???

What a weird coincidence that the same rise in fees just happened in germany too...

[QUOTE=AK'z;36188570]Think it this way. You make a movie, it sells really well. 10 years later you no longer have any ownership of it. Rethink this idea.[/QUOTE] I don't see any problem actually. In 10 year you make at least another movie, so you continue to earn money. It's normal that an artist can't live their whole life doing nothing because they made one song/movie/book that sells well. And when the movie would be no longer copyrighted, the companies that would try to make money out of it (by reissuing it on DVD for example) would have to to sell it dirt cheap because it would be legally free on the internet and nobody would buy it otherwise.

[QUOTE=Kljunas;36193056]I don't see any problem actually. In 10 year you make at least another movie, so you continue to earn money. It's normal that an artist can't live their whole life doing nothing because they made one song/movie/book that sells well. And when the movie would be no longer copyrighted, the companies that would try to make money out of it (by reissuing it on DVD for example) would have to to sell it dirt cheap because it would be legally free on the internet and nobody would buy it otherwise.[/QUOTE] Couldn't be more wrong. What if your subsequent releases make fuck all and you would have to rely on the income on the previous work. It's an invalid sentiment to make for things to go into a public domain after such a short period of time.

[QUOTE=Florence;36186817]Thank your Harper. Your government is the single best argument for Quebec sovereignty we've had in awhile. <3 <3 <3 xxx[/QUOTE] Quick FYI: the copyright board is an arms length organization, the same way the CRTC is. It isn't very likely that the Conservatives were directly involved. They can, however, force them to overturn their decision, so start emailing your politicians boys.

[QUOTE=yawmwen;36187237]The artists don't make plenty of cash. Ironically, these measures will probably help them out least, even though they are the most deserving and needing of the compensation.[/QUOTE] This isn't to help the artists, it's to line the pockets of the copyright holders. Just like all copyright law.

[QUOTE=AK'z;36193083]Couldn't be more wrong. What if your subsequent releases make fuck all and you would have to rely on the income on the previous work. It's an invalid sentiment to make for things to go into a public domain after such a short period of time.[/QUOTE] Copyright is such an elusive thing. Should all movies forever be copyrighted? After all, all movies were inspired by something. You shouldn't make money off people showing small snippets of your movie on youtube when it's 3 years since it was released. Hell, people shouldn't be sued for streaming that shit on the internet if they don't make money off of it. 10 years is reasonable, hell, 20 years or until the artist dies is still reasonable. Right now it stands at something like copyright holders death + 70 years. That's not okay. No creative work can spring out of emptiness

Thanks God, I don't live in Canada :rock:

[QUOTE=Croix;36194042]Copyright is such an elusive thing. Should all movies forever be copyrighted? After all, all movies were inspired by something. You shouldn't make money off people showing small snippets of your movie on youtube when it's 3 years since it was released. Hell, people shouldn't be sued for streaming that shit on the internet if they don't make money off of it. 10 years is reasonable, hell, 20 years or until the artist dies is still reasonable. Right now it stands at something like copyright holders death + 70 years. That's not okay. No creative work can spring out of emptiness[/QUOTE] With good lawyers in the states, you can make copyright last 180 years. In Canada I believe it is 70 for media (thankfully it's only 4 years for drugs)

[QUOTE=Croix;36194042]Hell, people shouldn't be sued for streaming that shit on the internet if they don't make money off of it. [/QUOTE] That was my point earlier. I'm with you on the "artist dies = copyright abolished" too.