[cc-community] The Gowers Review of Intellectual Property

drew Roberts zotz at 100jamz.com
Fri Dec 8 09:30:00 EST 2006


Take a note of those artists supporting it and stop doing business with them 
in any form.


On Friday 08 December 2006 09:12 am, David Berry wrote:
> 8 Dec 2006
>
>
> Dear Norman Baker MP,

> However it turns out that yesterday (7 Dec 2006), there was an ad in
> the FT listing 4,000 musicians who supported retrospective term
> extension for sound recordings. If you read the list, you’ll see that
> at least some of these artists are dead (e.g. Lonnie Donegan, died 3
> November 2002; Freddie Garrity, died 19 May 2006).

Amazing isn't it, I guess they want to keep up the payments on the cooling and 
heating bills for their coffins.
>
> It is interesting to see so many musicians mobilizing in support of
> the lobbying efforts of the record industry to increase a monopoly at
> the expense of the public good, it is even more surprising to note
> that the record industry are somehow are able to channel the wishes
> of the dead.

>
> Best regards
>
> David Berry

all the best,

drew
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