The European parliament’s legal affairs committee just voted to extend copyright on music performances to 95 years. It was 50 years.

It has to go to the full parliament, but it’s likely to pass next month.

Stupid.

This won’t create any more performances, people don’t perform in the expectation of revenues on year 51, so it won’t create any more music, but what it will do is ensure that obscure works will be lost over time, because the difficulties of preserving and reproducing them will be too great.

Under the rules that they are proposing….Hell under the rules that they have now, Shakespeare’s works would have been forever lost to decay.

They would be gone, but we have to protect the f^%$ing mouse for another 45 f^%$ing years.