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Re: [ARSCLIST] Gowers considered recommending shorter copyright term
On 27 apr 2007, at 23.48, Stephen C Leggett wrote:
<<<Gowers considered cutting copyright lifespan 11:19AM, Thursday
26th April 2007
Andrew Gowers has revealed that he considered cutting the 50-year
copyright limit on sound recordings in his government-sponsored
review of UK intellectual property laws and only decided to
recommend that the status quo be retained because it was 'politically
Very interesting development but I wonder how that would stack up
with European law as in Europe they seem to have longer periods. This
can, of course, give problems to release old recordings.
Darren