Hola kolabs, la Unión Europea reguladora de derechos de autor ha dado 20
años más a los ya 50 años de derechos de autor que tenían los emporios
disqueros, esto casualmente con la pronta perdida de derechos sobre los
Beatles y otros grupos Europeos...
Aquí el articulo por la red nettime - wired..
[What Mickey Mouse is to the US, Beatles are to Europe......]
EU regulators vote to extend music copyright for another 20 years
By Mark Brown
08 September 11
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-09/08/eu-copyright-extension
<http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-09/08/eu-copyright-extension>
EU regulators in Brussels have voted to approve a controversial directive
that would see musicians retain copyright over their sound recordings for a
further 20 years -- a move that appeases ageing rock legends, but has
plenty of opposition elsewhere.
Currently, as the UK's Intellectual Property Office explains, "if a song
is recorded then copyright in this sound recording lasts for 50 years from
the end of the year in which it was made." Record labels and musicians have
lobbied to extend this to 70 (or, in some cases, 95) years.
This doesn't affect composers, though. Those who write the music retain
copyright for as long as they live and a further 70 years beyond that --
the same as authors, film directors and screenwriters.
The proposed extension is sometimes called the "Cliff Richard Law" or "The
Beatles Extension", because both 60s-era artists are seeing the copyright
on their recordings expire at the moment and both Cliff Richard and Paul
McCartney have campaigned for copyright term extensions.
The Who singer Roger Daltry -- another campaigner for term extensions --
told BBC News in 2007 that thousands of artists had "no pensions and rely
on royalties," and "they are not asking for a handout, just a fair reward
for their creative endeavours."
But a government-backed, independent review of copyright doesn't agree. A
2006 Gowers Review of Intellectual Property said, "The European Commission
should retain the length of protection on sound recordings and performers'
rights at 50 years"
In its conclusion, the review says, "it is our view that a term extension
will likely result in a net loss to UK society as a whole", arguing that
while retrospective extensions would line the pockets of the largest
record producers, money to individual performers would be minimal and the
cost to the consumer would be massive.
But that report has mattered little, as regulators in the EU have given the
thumbs up to extending copyright terms to 70 years. On 12 September 2011, a
Council of Ministers will have the final say and if they rubber-stamp the
changes, member states will be required to write them into law by 2014.
And that means no public domain Beatles works for us to mash up on YouTube
for another two decades. Damn.
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