"Rory Browne" rbmlist@gmail.com writes:
Give him the extra 45 years copyright he's asking for in art/music/litriture, etc, and reduce the copyright on computer code by 45 years to 5 years.
We probably won't get to have that discussion since the Berne Convention fixes the minimum copyright term to 50 years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention_for_the_Protection_of_Literary...
And TRIPS says that computer programs are to be covered by the Berne Convention. (Which is good for us because it means that TRIPS does not regard innovations in computer programs as technical inventions which would have to be patentable.)
I just ran across this interview with rapper Shaggy on WIPO's website: http://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2007/06/article_0003.html
He seems to contradict himself a bit, but his description of the music industry implies that the current corporations should be weakened, and that it was an absense of copyright (before 1993) that fostered music in Jamaica.