Dave Fawthrop wrote:
| |Unless I'm missing something, reading all these sections together, |esp. s. 5(1) of the Schedule, spell non-retroactivity of the stupid, |stupid, stupid 20-year extension to life+70. If the life+50 term had |already run out, the life+70 term does NOT apply.
The UK parliament absolutely *hates* retrospective laws, and almost never passes them, so this is what I would expect.
The retroactivity stems from EU treaties, and was never made explicit in the law. Since parliament considered the issue non-controversial, it just passed the law without much discussion. The law is not retroactive in the sense that it criminalizes past behaviour, even though it stole works from the public domain. Same happened in Holland. Shame, shame, shame, and lets lobby to reverse this law. If only enough EU lawmakers realize how bad this is, it could be reversed. Jeroen.