[78-L] Good news on copyright extension

[Alan Bunting]

This news is not surprising and is exactly what I predicted in an article I wrote for the latest issue of the magazine "Journal Into Melody".

It summarises the present state of play and may be found here (you need to scroll down to get to it):

http://www.rfsoc.org.uk/news.shtml

The piece also reveals that the amended proposal is seriously flawed with changes to the "use it or lose it" and "orpahn works" clauses meaning that, if it became law, in many cases it would allow record companies to retain copyright, even if they don't make the recordings available. 

Alan Bunting

--- On Thu, 3/9/09, Kristjan Saag <saag at telia.com> wrote:

> The Swedish minister of justice,Beatrice Ask, today disclosed that 
> Sweden, holding the EU presidency this year, will not give priority
> to the question of copyright extension on recordings. The message was
> delivered during a committee hearing in Brussels, today.