From:  "Virgils Ghost" <no@spam.com>
Date:  20 Apr 2006 22:49:13 Hong Kong Time
Newsgroup:  news.alt119.net/rec.audio.misc
Subject:  

Re: recording copyright term extension

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> He was quick to point out to the interviewer that whilst he would be
> able to scrape by without royalties from Move it, Living Doll etc the
> campaigners were more concerned with those who perhaps had 5 or 6 hits
> in their youth and then little after that.  If the writers and
> publishers are still able to make money from these recordings, then
> surely the performers ought to get their due also.

Or maybe kids should just be able to sing happy birthday without having to 
pay a fee to any publisher or performer.

Artists don't owe their great grand-children a free lunch, maybe they will 
be given the incentive to produce some new work of their own rather than 
living off the public domain.