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EU Sound Recording Term Extension Battles

By Howard Knopf, Esq.

A major battle is brewing in the EU over term extension for sound recordings - from 50 to 95 years. The European Commission - ignoring the independent expert report it commissioned from Bernt Hugenholtz and the work of other independent experts - is insisting that session musicians will benefit to the tune of about ?2,000 a year. On the other hand, according to IP-Watch, the Open Rights Group,

Full post as published by Excess Copyright on January 27, 2009 (boomark / email).