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1ChadWikipedia, VeropediaUnited States of America20 February 2008, 17:29 CSTI believe that these actions undertaken by the European Union constitute a grave moral error which needs to be corrected as soon as humanly possible.
2MikeWikipedia, VeropediaUnited States of America20 February 2008, 18:18 CST
3Daniel20 February 2008, 22:48 CST
4DannyWikimedia, VeropediaUnited States of America20 February 2008, 23:13 CST
5RianaWikimedia21 February 2008, 06:38 CST
6EmilyVeropeida.comUnited States of America21 February 2008, 07:16 CST
7GeorgeWikipediaUnited States of America21 February 2008, 07:46 CST
8Brianhttp://en.wikinews.orgBelgium21 February 2008, 08:04 CSTCopyright should be getting reduced, not extended. Were the proposal less ridiculous and including a section to reduce composer's rights from life+70 then I'd see the point. The rest of us have to budget throughout our lives for our retirement. Why should one group be given a privilege that lasts beyond their lifetime where the majority are not?
9Theowikipedia, wikinewsNetherlands21 February 2008, 08:41 CST
10Jacques wikinewsFrance21 February 2008, 08:46 CST
11WojciechPolish WikipediaPoland21 February 2008, 09:00 CST
12AndrewWikipedia, VeropediaCanada21 February 2008, 09:03 CSTWhile artists are entitled to benefit from their works, 95 years serves only to benefit record companies after artists have already passed away.
13AndreProject Gutenberg, WikipediaNetherlands21 February 2008, 09:05 CST
14DanielWikipediaGermany21 February 2008, 09:34 CST
15Dan*pedias, Wikiversity, EFFUnited States of America21 February 2008, 10:23 CST
16YannWikisourceFrance21 February 2008, 10:28 CSTExtension of copyright term is not beneficial to the public, only to people and organisations who do not need it.
17KeithikonForumsUnited Kingdom21 February 2008, 10:49 CST
18AlexWikimedia, VeropediaUnited States of America21 February 2008, 10:50 CST
19NickWikimedia and VeropediaUnited Kingdom21 February 2008, 11:16 CST
20AnyWikipediaAfghanistan21 February 2008, 11:39 CSTExtending copyright is not a way to give money to the authors, but a way to avoid anything to enter in the public domain.
21Tomasz W.WikimediaPoland21 February 2008, 12:50 CST
22KrzysztofDebian GNU/Linux, GNU Anubis, ClamFS, etc.Poland21 February 2008, 13:05 CST
23Reinhardtmore then 500 wikisGermany21 February 2008, 13:06 CST
24ManoshWikimediaUnited Kingdom21 February 2008, 13:07 CST
25KristinUnited States of America21 February 2008, 13:21 CST
26PaulWikimediaUnited Kingdom21 February 2008, 13:22 CSTThis proposal harms the free-content movement. It cannot be allowed to pass.
27MilosWikimediaSerbia and Montenegro21 February 2008, 13:24 CST
28WillVeropedia, Wikipedia and associated projectsUnited Kingdom21 February 2008, 13:33 CST
29KrzysiuWikimedia, WikinewsPoland21 February 2008, 13:38 CST
30AGKWikipediaUnited Kingdom21 February 2008, 13:54 CST
31EddieWikipedia, Wikinews, Wikimedia CommonsPuerto Rico21 February 2008, 14:48 CST
32JasonWikinews.orgUnited States of America21 February 2008, 15:16 CSTthis is horse crap.
33ChristiUnited States of America21 February 2008, 17:20 CST
34Peter-CaseyccMixter, Wikipedia, VeropediaUnited States of America21 February 2008, 17:21 CSTThe ability to freely revisit public domain works in order to create new transformative and derivative works is deeply important to innovation and artists in general.
35AlexWikimediaUnited Kingdom21 February 2008, 17:40 CST
36AlisonWikipedia, Veropedia, Sourceforge, GNU-toolsUnited States of America21 February 2008, 17:59 CSTAs a European citizen, I deplore this move to extend performer copyright to beyond that which is reasonably necessary. It's a retrograde step
37DavidWikimediaUnited Kingdom21 February 2008, 18:07 CST
38JoeWikipedia, Veropedia, Wikimedia CommonsUnited States of America21 February 2008, 19:11 CST
39SamuelWikipedia, Free Music Project, One Laptop per ChildUnited States of America21 February 2008, 20:47 CSTPlease work with modern artists directly to discover the right way forward.
40Jonathanvarious Wikimedia projectsUnited States of America21 February 2008, 21:12 CST
41AndrewWikipediaUnited States of America21 February 2008, 22:53 CSTHow long of a copyright did Shakespeare enjoy? Descartes? Aristotle, even? Europe has been driven by the free exchange of ideas and prose, yet these greats wrote their works without the benefit of a 95 year copyright. Especially in this age of accelerating returns, 95 years is an abomination. Frankly, so is 50, but one step at a time.
42CharlieUnixPod Shell Service, Freenode, DevNodeUnited States of America21 February 2008, 23:02 CST
43SageWikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, WikinewsUnited States of America22 February 2008, 00:01 CST
44RobertWikipediaSpain22 February 2008, 01:55 CSTno, I'm good
45AdamWikimediaUnited Kingdom22 February 2008, 03:49 CST
46RichardwikipediaUnited Kingdom22 February 2008, 04:26 CST
47MaxVeropedia, WikipediaUnited Kingdom22 February 2008, 06:54 CSTThe idea seems very backwards and I'm not sure open source usefulness has been considered.
48RuudWikipediaNetherlands22 February 2008, 07:18 CST
49FayshaanaUnited States of America22 February 2008, 07:33 CST
50MitchVeropediaUnited States of America22 February 2008, 11:35 CST
51AndrewWikipediaSingapore22 February 2008, 11:47 CST
52ZacharyVeropedia, WikipediaUnited States of America22 February 2008, 14:17 CST
53Sanfordwikinfo.orgUnited States of America22 February 2008, 16:57 CSTI am stealing a book a day from my university library until all books are free!
54RodNetherlands22 February 2008, 17:14 CST
55JorgeUnited States of America22 February 2008, 21:47 CST
56MarkCanada22 February 2008, 23:50 CSTCopyright terms are too long already.
57AnirudhWikipediaIndia23 February 2008, 01:20 CST
58UlfWikipediaNorway23 February 2008, 03:57 CST50 years should be more than enough time for protecting artists production.
59TomaszWikipedia, WikinewsPoland23 February 2008, 08:13 CST
60Zachary Network Neutrality?United States of America25 February 2008, 01:47 CST
61MartinUbuntu, Wikipedia, WikinewsUnited Kingdom26 February 2008, 12:13 CST
62Derk-Janvideolan, wikipediaNetherlands27 February 2008, 05:17 CSTThis extension of copyright is a moneymaking machine for traditional companies that are currently facing disconnection with the rest of society that is forcing them to make money with their old material instead. It does not benefit true artists, it benefits families, investors and companies. As such it goes directly opposite to the true and original intent of copyright and should not be implemented.
63PetrWikipediaCzech Republic27 February 2008, 12:58 CSTI highlight what was already written by one predecessor: Europe has been driven by the free exchange of ideas - that is historically very true and the mentioned step is going to petrify the movement and usage of our cultural heritage. Of course that owner has to have benefit and profit from his own creativity... and 50 years does not guarantee him life pension .. but 95 years is going too far.
64BienaimeWikipediaFrance27 February 2008, 16:01 CST
65SebastianWikipediaAustralia28 February 2008, 02:24 CST
66AndrewWikipedia, VeropediaUnited Kingdom28 February 2008, 16:27 CST
67BenwikipediaUnited States of America29 February 2008, 05:32 CST
68IngridUnited States of America29 February 2008, 23:03 CST
69PatrickWikipedia, Wikinews, Ubuntu Linux userUnited States of America3 March 2008, 15:14 CST
70paoloWordPressItaly4 March 2008, 18:02 CST
71ShlomoIsrael5 March 2008, 04:13 CST
72JaapWikipediaSwitzerland5 March 2008, 04:38 CST
73Andrewen.wikipedia.orgAustralia6 March 2008, 07:56 CST
74MarlinUnited States of America7 March 2008, 13:55 CSTIs there any pop song so good it should be earning money for the author's great-grandchildren? Is there any pop song so good it should be earning money for the management company that collects the royalties for eventual disbursement to the author, minus collection costs, of course?
75JoeyNetherlands8 March 2008, 05:25 CSTWe should reduce the copyright laws not enlarge them. Thats why i sign agains this law!
76MargaretUnited Kingdom12 March 2008, 07:00 CDT
77TámpawikipediaRomania12 March 2008, 11:50 CDTKnowledge is free!!!
78SandraArgentina12 March 2008, 13:30 CDT
79ChrisWikipediaUnited Kingdom13 March 2008, 06:59 CDT50 is already (more than) enough. We should be looking at where that period could safely be reduced. Private monopolies are a Bad Thing that should only be tolerated if the alternatives are worse. I really doubt anyone is put off creating new works because they "only" get two generations of exclusive rights to profit from them.
80NWikipedia, VeropediaUnited States of America24 March 2008, 22:32 CDTWe need free content for a free world!
81LeiaWikipedia, WikiaUnited States of America26 March 2008, 18:44 CDTI don't understand why the EU doesn't want free content. I too find this issue to be deplorable.
82JasCanada27 March 2008, 11:57 CDT
83zeng2 April 2008, 21:01 CDT
84Andreasde.wikipediaGermany3 April 2008, 01:57 CDTThe EU wants to limit subsidies. This would be a billion-dollar present to an industry, simply stolen from us all, at no cost for politicians. I call this robbery.
85AnitaGermany3 April 2008, 11:47 CDT
86KlausWikisource, Wikiquote, WikipediaGermany3 April 2008, 18:13 CDT
87AndreasGermany4 April 2008, 01:18 CDT
88MichaelaGermany4 April 2008, 02:30 CDT
89UlrichIcking Music Archive, CPDLGermany4 April 2008, 05:10 CDT
90SebastianGermany4 April 2008, 05:10 CDT
91Carlos4 April 2008, 09:16 CDT
92Moritz4 April 2008, 10:58 CDT
93ArnoGermany4 April 2008, 14:57 CDT
94Annette5 April 2008, 05:47 CDT
95Br12 April 2008, 18:57 CDT
96Ojanwww.wikipedia.orgSweden20 April 2008, 18:06 CDTCopyright law prevents creativity in a very effective way in many cases. To extend the time a work is copyrighted from 50 to 95 years does not benefit artists or performers, it only serves to make the owners of the copyright - who are in almost all cases not productive themselves - even richer while preventing the public both from using the works and from being creative themselves inspired by the works.
97StefanGermany26 April 2008, 07:47 CDT50 years are enough
98Wolfganghttp://kettenhunde.over-blog.com/Germany26 April 2008, 18:44 CDT
99MartinGermany26 April 2008, 18:52 CDTPreservation and development of our culture need lesser than more copyright restrictions. There may be necessity for some regulations and creators have rights we should respect, but ideas and immaterial goods are free and should be kept as free as possible just so that it can be useful for our society and all mankind.
100ThorstenGermany27 April 2008, 05:25 CDT
101LorenzoItaly15 May 2008, 08:58 CDT
102Jamesen.wikipediaAustralia17 May 2008, 00:29 CDTWikipedia, Veropedia and many others would suffer from this. I doubt anyone can find me an artist who isn't willing to make their art Public Domain after 50 years.
103Constantino23 May 2008, 15:11 CDT
104JetWikipedia, WikimediaUnited States of America24 May 2008, 15:46 CDTThis is bad. Copyright is like a block that restricts others to use it.
105Andreas FranzWikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Ulm's Oberon System, Ulm's Modula-2 SystemGermany28 May 2008, 03:36 CDT
106DavidCanada29 May 2008, 16:39 CDT
107JeroenNetherlands5 June 2008, 10:17 CDT
108Robert M.12 June 2008, 13:27 CDT
109jean luc Netherlands27 June 2008, 15:58 CDT
110Jose MariaWikipediaSpain28 June 2008, 13:20 CDT
111anthonywikipediaUnited Kingdom12 July 2008, 19:23 CDTthis is plain wrong
112CarmenSpain15 July 2008, 06:51 CDT
113GirikWikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikitravel, Veropedia, other smallers wikisAustralia22 July 2008, 05:05 CDT
114ToddiCommonsUnited States of America11 August 2008, 14:36 CDT
115AnthonyUnited Kingdom14 August 2008, 09:51 CDT
116DerekWikipediaUnited States of America17 August 2008, 15:51 CDTThe copyright laws in the USA are rediculous...don't go down that same path.
117RJCanada17 August 2008, 16:21 CDT
118HughWikipediaUnited Kingdom20 August 2008, 04:58 CDT
119AntoniowikipediaSpain26 August 2008, 15:53 CDTKnowledge, music and arts, must be free!
120ErikWikipediaUnited States of America3 September 2008, 17:45 CDT
121jeremy17 September 2008, 22:30 CDT
122hjklhjkl4 October 2008, 11:44 CDT
123Huw5 October 2008, 06:27 CDT
124RoarNorway5 October 2008, 07:58 CDT
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