Logical, but sadly not necessarily true... In the patent arena, despite the 'input logic' of decreasing costs by supporting shorter and narrower patents, most corporations and their representatives actually favour expanded rights on the basis that this 'protects' their outputs... An output orientation that I imagine will also be found in the music industry's various elements....
---------------------------------------------------------------- Christopher May Professor of Political Economy Head of Department (from August 1st) Director of Research Department of Politics and International Relations Lancaster University Lancaster LA1 4YL tel: 01524 594272 fax: 01524 594238 webpage: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/politics/people/may/may.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Cowlishaw Sent: 03 July 2006 10:47 To: David Berry Cc: UK FreeCulture Discuss List Subject: Re: [fc-uk-discuss] GOWER-Copyright Term Extension /*SORRY, FORGOT TO REPLY ALL*/ That's interesting - I personally would have thought that PRS-MCPS would be fairly neutral on the issue of term extension, if not directly opposed to it. As their members are songwriters and composers rather than performers, and already have a life+70 copyright in their musical works, surely it would be advantageous for them for recordings of their works performed by others to enter the public domain, as it would lead to increased exploitation of the underlying musical work which continues to be protected? cheers, Tim On 7/3/06, David Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Interesting article in M the in-house publication of the PRS/MCPS by > Andrew Gower, the ex-Financial Times editor and Chair of the > Government's review into Intellectual Property: > > <quote> > > One issue in particular has drawn masses of attention and voluminous > submissions: the length of copyright term on sound recordings. We have > learned submissions from Pink Floyd calling for an extension - not to > mention a campaign fronted by performers whose 50-year-old recordings > are about to lose copyright protection. > > The consumer organisations also have strong things to say on this, > proving that there is more than one side to every argument. The issue > is an explicit part of the Gower Review's remit, and we'll be > conducting our own work on the likely costs and benefits of term > extension. > > </quote> > > Gower, Andrew (2006). Comment: Fathoming IP's Future. M. MCPS/PRS > Members Music Magazine. Issue 20. June 2006. pp 50 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > fc-uk-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/fc-uk-discuss > _______________________________________________ fc-uk-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/fc-uk-discuss _______________________________________________ fc-uk-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/fc-uk-discuss
