It's not new, technology just escalated it.

Stan Kenton, frustrated with excessive copyright laws, wrote a piece of 32 bars of rest for every instrument in his entire orchestra followed by one snare drum eighth note, and copyrighted it as a protest.

What people forget, the law is SUPPOSED to protect the income of the copyright owner. Since "Blurred Lines" didn't hurt the by now non-existent sales of an old Marvin Gaye song, IMO, the jury that awarded the money to the Gaye estate are guilty of robbery.

And keeping the copyright active for 75 years after the artist's death IMHO is also very excessive.

If I invented a drug that cured all cancers, I'd get about 20 years of patent protection.

So tell me that a song is so much more important that it gets the rest of the author's life plus 75 years.

I see the problem, but don't know how to fix it.

Any ideas?

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