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Originally Posted by HarryT
I must very respectfully disagree with you, Ralph. Eg, the British Parliament recently rejected a call to increase music "performance copyright" from its current 50 year time, despite considerable pressure from the music industry to do so. Governments don't always bow to the whims of commercial pressures, I'm happy to say.
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I'm afraid you're wrong there. The UK Government commissioned a report - the "Gower Report" that came out very strongly against extending the copyright length.
The Government is still going along with current European moves to extend the mechanical copyright from 50 to 70 years.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/4...us-anyway.html