Does McCreevy have no shame?

You really have to question whose interests McCreevy serves. It certainly isn't consumers. The irish commissioner for Europe's Internal Market is backing a proposal to extend copyright from it's current life+50 (expires 50 years after the death of the artist) to life+95 (note in the UK it is life+70). Now I'm for Copyright for artisitic works, but what is patently missing from the proposal is any real justification for why the terms need to be extended (that is beyond the fact the the BPI and their European counterparts are lobbying hard). Is it just me, or shouldn't an internal market commissioner be mostly against extending protectionist measures. But given his previous position on software patents, we really shouldn't be surprised.

Hilariously the Tory opposition in the UK has agreed to back the proposal provided the BPI provide ""positive role models for young kids to look up to, draw inspiration from, and aspire to be". So lots more X-factor for everyone - brilliant.