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Originally Posted by usuallee
Obviously it's different with artists, but c'mon, I think 50 years - a whole half century! - is more than fair. Can you imagine, the Beatles catalog would be coming into the public domain. Obviously, the powers that be will never let that happen.
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Currently in the UK, copyright in sound recordings lasts for 50 years. There is an EU directive that
must be implemented into UK law by 1 November 2013 that will extend the term to 70 years.
Various artists fought hard to get the term extended (which was originally going to be 95 years, not 70). It amuses me that Roger Daltry, the man who sang "
hope I die before I get old" in one of his songs, fought for the extension, complaining that without it, he wouldn't have a pension
