Europe anti-sound extention petition
p2pnet news view Politics | Music:- Recording Industy vs The People’s Ray Beckerman and Dave, one of his visitors, thought p2pnet readers might want to know about a petition organised in Europe to stop the Big 4 record labels from even worse music thefts than they’ve perpetrated already.
“A handful of major record labels are trying to break a fifty year-old promise,” says SoundCopyright.eu, operated by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Open Rights Group (ORG).
So they’ve organised a petitition to lock in the idea that copyrights on sound recordings shouldn’t go beyond the 50 years, the present term.
“An independent review (the ‘Gowers review’) commissioned and endorsed by the UK government says it should remain at 50 years,” says the site, and yet, “the recording industry continues to demand that this term be extended. But term extension would be an injustice to European musicians and musical culture, and may harm our economy.”
As Europe, “looks to the creative industries for its economic future,” it can, “agree to extend the copyright term in sound recordings for the sake of a few major record labels. Or it can allow sound recordings to enter the public domain at the end of fifty years for the benefit of future innovation, future prosperity and the public good,” says SoundCopyright.eu
And anyone who agrees can make that plain in the petition, which says »»»
The following individuals state their opposition to a copyright term extension for sound recordings.
We ask the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers to ensure that policy in this area reflects all concerned stakeholders, including consumer and public interest organisations, and not just the commercial rights-holders who advocate for extended copyright term.
All the evidence shows a term extension directive, “will do very little and almost nothing to help the poor performer and everything to line the pockets of the world`s record labels,” said ORG executive director Becky Hogge at the ORG Sound Copyright conference in the European Parliament, in 2006.
Stay tuned.
February , 2009
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February 6th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
ORG executive director Becky Hogge-
All the evidence shows a term extension directive, âwill do very little and almost nothing to help the poor performer and everything to line the pockets of the worldâs record labels,â
Big Music-
“Exactly. What’s your point?”
February 6th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
Hey Jon,
We had written two posts to date on this:
http://ezee.se/articles-blog/2008/09/09/music-labels-getting-ready-to-pull-off-one-of-the-biggest-scams-in-history/
and
http://ezee.se/articles-blog/2009/01/19/open-rights-group-fights-back-brussels-demand-sound-copyright/
but we missed this one, thanks for the link (soundcopyright.eu) the EFF has got a couple more active supporters from Sweden thanks to your and this wonderful site.
Have a good one!
//Ryan
February 10th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
Copyright ought to be limited to a ten year maximum. That being five year automatic coverage with the option of paying for a five year extension.
And this needs to be brought in retroactively.
The system does nothing to help the people its intending to support, the artists, the innovators the inventors, it only lines the pockets of the corporations, the sorts of people copyright was intended to disenfranchise from profit on creative works.
This wouldn’t solve the problem of copyright completely, yet it would definitely be a very, very good start.
Of course banning lobbyists in all forms, couldn’t hurt…