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Video on Proposed Term Extension of Sound Recordings in EU

By Howard Knopf, Esq.

Here's an outstanding video from the Open Rights Group on the European Commission's determination to ignore all the reliable evidence (including the work it itself commissioned from Bernt Hugenholtz et al) and push for term extension of sound recordings to 95 years. According to ORG, this would create a windfall for record companies and potentially provide negligible help and even harm to

Full post as published by Excess Copyright on January 17, 2009 (boomark / email).