Music Copyrights

Just an interesting article I thought I should share after our discussion last week. We discussed copyright laws of books, but apparently a lot of music artists would like to extend the time frame on music copyrights. Since there is such a large industry in re-releasing old hits or remaking old hits, copyright laws are clearly important for the music industry. The article connects the recent use of downloading as a source of consumption of music to copyright laws, somewhat unclearly. Anyway, it's interesting and you should all check it out.

I found this quote most interesting and relevant:
"I don't think anyone involved in music's creation can understand how, after a certain amount of time, it stops being yours and starts being everyone else's," he told Reuters.

Here is the article:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/01/uk.copyright.reut/index.html