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Of course effective site-blocking is not terribly feasible. That's pretty much how the internet is designed. In theory, you could only allow connections from trusted hosts (white listing), but that defeats the purpose of being on the internet. |
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Audio recordings is a patchwork mess due to Congress. The common sense solution is to rewrite the law so sound recordings are treated the same as a book publication. Pre-1978 recordings would then be original release + 95 years while post-1978 would be Life + 70 for artist(s), lyricist(s) and composer(s)
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Don't see how it could have shorter copyright than the book. Who is to prevent it being drug through a speech recognition filter to have a copy of the book?
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The length of term of copyright in a sound recording depends on whether or not it has been published (released) or has been communicated to the public (for example, played on the radio)
https://www.gov.uk/government/public...und-recordings Ie, any recording that's been published has a copyright term of 70 years from the date of publication. This is a change to the law that was in force up until 2011, under which the copyright term of a recording was 50 years from the date of the recording. Last edited by HarryT; 03-07-2018 at 08:54 AM. |
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The US laws has everything under copyright until 2076. There was no Federal sound copyright until 1972, it had been on a state-by-state basis before that. California and New Jersey had the most restrictive laws.
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Capitalism is not likely the only culprit
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Now don't get me wrong I am not attacking Americans here. I am American, from New York, but America is anti-intellectual like the Roman empire rather than intellectual like the ancient Greeks. This is undeniable, for instance, see books like : The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby and Anti-intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter etc... You know what ? Librarians, scholars and other people trying to keep their position in the capitalist system in relation to books or the gate keepers of knowledge may have been over ruled by Google if they bribed the court or politicians or whatnot to have the court rule on their side. Why did not capitalism function in this desired way ? As Steve Jobs said Amazon's Kindle e-book reader will fail because Americans simply don't read. So Google had no financial incentive here. So, uh , yeah, if the eReader market dwindles down and Kobo and Amazon eventually stop making eReaders all together who is to blame ? Americans. We are our own enemy. Last edited by bagpiper1; 03-10-2018 at 01:26 PM. Reason: fix punctuation and grammar |
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I disagree about American anti intellectualism being enough to bring down the ebook reader as both Amazon and Rakuten Kobo are very international corporations who sell world wide. I wonder what percentage of Kindle reader sales are in the USA as Amazon does not release sales figures. So far as I am concerned there is no clear replacement product yet with the same set of characteristics including the ability to read in such a wide range of conditions with minimal eye strain and until there is I do not expect the ebook reader or e-ink display to vanish.
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But I do agree with your point. Kobo is a Canadian company owned by a Japanese company. Then there's all the smaller e-reader manufacturers that aren't US based and don't sell here. If e-readers were banned in the US, it would be bad news for Amazon, but the devices would continue on without much change, I think. |
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Of interest to this thread..
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