Big 4 labels on UK copyright term
p2pnet.net News:- Peter Jamieson, the man who runs the Big Four Organized Music cartel’s BPI (British Phonographic Industry), is as upset as Cliff Richard.
An independent review will probably recommend that UK copyright won’t extended to almost 100 years. But Jamieson may have good news for the extremely wealthy Cliff., whose earlier stuff is slated to drop out of copyright in 2008.
All is not lost!
“The BPI has not yet seen the Gowers report, but if the media leaks are correct it would appear that the Gowers Review has missed a great opportunity to support the UK’s music industry – both the musicians who make a living out of music and the companies who invest in them,” says Jamieson in a statement.
“But it is really the responses of the Treasury, DTI and DCMS and not the recommendations of an independent report, that we are most interested in. It’s in the government’s power to ignore such a recommendation and they should do so.”
You can hear the scurrying as lobbyists paid by Warner Music (US), Vivendi Universal (France), Sony BMG (Japan and Germany) and, finally, EMI (Britain), Richard’s label, strain to put things right for Big Music.
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November 30th, 2006 at 12:16 pm
“both the musicians who make a living out of music and the companies who invest in them”
Is this a joke? Yes, an expansion of the copyright duration myth, that artists (creators) are so forward looking that they invest their time thinking on the profits of many years later when actual corporate capital investment is never made thinking long range, just thinking on the duration of the employment of the decision makers at most.
As a person with some experience in making capital equipment investments decisions at large American manufacturing companies, I can tell that it is very hard to get approval for an investment that will not pay itself in five years. Certainly no one invests anything if the payback is over 10 years.
It is absurd to think that a musician can “make a living” out of recordings made 100 years ago.
As to investment on musicians, no record company invests on musicians, (the so called “artist development” bullshit – whatever that means). I have met many musicians and many have been financially helped to study by parents, governments, friends and othersbut never by a record company.
Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com