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Meeting in the Commons to discuss copyright term
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 29 January 2009
A meeting organised by the all important Parliamentary Jazz Appreciation Group and recording royalty body PPL next Monday will discuss all things copyright extension.
The meeting will take place in the House Of Commons, though will centre more on the progress of legislation at a European level regarding increasing the European recordings copyright term from the current fifty years to something nearer the 95 year term enjoyed by record labels in the US.
Various music types will give updates on their own activity at the event, while a new video designed to convince UK MEPs of the case for extension will be premiered.
Music Week quite copyright term campaigner Michael Connarty, a co-host of the meeting, as saying these words: “This is a very important time for the music industry when, after years of waiting, we may be able to deliver something of real benefit to the musicians who have given us so many wonderful recordings”.
