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The main motivation for extending copyright 'till the cows come home is most likely to keep material from becoming public domain and thereby from making sure it
by Yetanfou 8y ago
The main motivation for extending copyright 'till the cows come home is most likely to keep material from becoming public domain and thereby from making sure it doesn't compete with the latest thrash the industry is producing. If their latest auto-tuned plastic one-hit wonder had to compete against a wealth of free-as-in-beer music the risk would be for the latter to become popular among the cool kids. No free music means no risk of that happening.
- ddingus 8y agoA lot of it already is. I'm kind of amazed at the number of young people listening back to that time period.
- eilyra 8y agoThat makes me wonder, is there already something akin to Project Gutenberg but for music rather than books? Would be interesting to browse.
- mikekchar 8y agoI ran into this the other day: http://radio.publicdomainproject.org/ http://radio.publicdomainproject.org/