[ox-en] (Fwd) Copyright extension
- From: "tOM Trottier" <tOM Abacurial.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:26:24 -0500
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From: tOM Trottier <tOM Abacurial.com>
To: consultations international.gc.ca
Subject: Copyright extension
CC: mgeist uottawa.ca
Reply to: tOM Abacurial.com
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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