German Prosecutors Tell Entertainment Industry They Won’t Help Going After P2P Users - TechDirt

We’ve never quite understood why in the US and some other countries, a civil matter between businesses and their customers should require help from public law enforcement….Public prosecutors in Germany are apparently telling entertainment industry lawyers that they won’t help the industry track down file sharers, noting the “obvious disproportionateness” of trying to go after people for file sharing, and noting that unauthorized file sharing was merely “a petty offense,” while pointing out that, despite industry claims to the contrary, “there was no evidence that substantial damage had been done.”

Brits reject copyright term extension for music! - Boing Boing

This is the first time that I know of, in the history of the world, that any country has given up on extended copyright terms. In the US, the Supreme Court found that 98 percent of the works in copyright were “orphans” with no visible owner and no way to clear them and bring them back into the world. Extending copyright dooms nearly every author’s life’s work to obscurity and disappearance, in order to make a few more pennies for the tiny minority of millionaire artists like Cliff Richard (and billionaires like Paul McCartney)

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