Posts by Martin Brown
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Actually, the worst understanding of creative works IP I've seen today was from Gordon Campbell who dissed the 70 year protection on ( although he didn't specify it as such ) recorded works, songs, and publishing as somehow stifling innovation - and went on to talk about what were clearly patent/ biotech-type IP concerns.
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Polity: TPP, eh?, in reply to Russell Brown,
"Not for the musicians/composers. Copyright in musical works currently extends 50 years from the death of the author. And now it'll be 70 years. So the copyright in, say, Graham Brazier's works will expire in 2085.
For master recording owners – typically record labels and producers – I have a bit less sympathy. Half a century is a good long time to have exclusive control of a recording that probably cost you very little to acquire.
Even the current term is locking up a lot of music that no owner claims or wishes to exploit. There are public good arguments here."
Well aware of the difference between songs and masters re. copyright - but the fact is NZ more and more a place where the originators are independent and own their recordings and a song you record and own at 17 can be damn useful to you and your family when you're 67 and some brand wants to license it.
Also - there is often income for non-owning performers from masters ( especially under the US model) outside of songwriting rights.
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"We have to give way on copyright rules, but for me I don’t see that as a huge deal as it only affects works that are between 50 and 70 years old. Right now it’s Elvis and early Hitchcock. Meh."
Matters a bit to NZ musicians or master owners that were looking at losing rights to recordings they own or control dating from the mid-60s on.
I wonder what happens to those whose rights have lapsed, or who fall into a gap between, say, a 2005 expiry and when this gets passed.
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Complicated, isn't it. I reckon Mr and Mrs NZ will completely fuck it up.
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Govt policy and every almost move they make/don't make, reflect their internal polling. You know,focus groups. Quant and qual research. The political bloc that counts ( that wonderful home-owning, government-defining middle-NZ) would seem to be a smug, self-interested bunch living on the remembered grand social bravery of some quite time ago. We're not as amazing as we like to think we are.
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Speaker: Are we seeing the end of MSM,…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Speaking of your subs - is there a particular point in the year when you call for them? I know we chipped in something at some stage recently but... time.
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Hard News: Fifty thousand preventable deaths, in reply to Russell Brown,
There is a GDP value the Govt attaches to a productive human life...well, there used to be. ACC once upon a time used to apply it to the cost of a death by accident, to justify their advertising spend. It's certainly more than 100K.
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Hah. John Key announced his preferred Kyle Lockwood design the same day he announced the flag process Quelle surprise. . http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/10619557/Two-step-flag-referendum-outlined-by-PM-John-Key
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This is a classic use of the Mere Exposure Effect - middle NZ is being played to effect a pre-determined outcome. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere-exposure_effect
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Polity: Saudi sheep: Misappropriating…, in reply to ,
SFO investigation, at that dollar level.