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TOPIC: Gowers Report - copyright
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zooloo
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Gowers Report - copyright 18 Years, 5 Months ago  
The BBC have a story on the Gowers Report - that's the one abvout updating copyright laws.

As was clear anyway, the 50 year performance copyright expiry isn't recommended for extension.

It's all quite pragmatic "...it also says private users should be allowed to copy music from a CD to their MP3 player."

And some guesswork "estimate... 20% of the entertainment industry's turnover was lost to illegal copying..."
 
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Martin

Re:Govers Report - copyright 18 Years, 5 Months ago  
20%!!and the rest!
 
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DJones
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Re:Govers Report - copyright 18 Years, 5 Months ago  
Among the 4,000 musicians who supported retrospective term extension are at least two who are dead:

Lonnie Donegan, died 4th November 2002;
Freddie Garrity, died 20th May 2006).

Lawrence Lessig:
"I take it the ability of these dead authors to sign a petition asking for their copyright terms to be extended can only mean that even after death, term extension continues to inspire."
 
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