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["Tim Cowlishaw" <timcowlishaw AT gmail.com>]

Hi Paul,

The video should be ready by next week, but in the meantime, there's a
sound recording of the event available here:

http://www.releasethemusic.org/2006/11/15/release-the-music-audio-recording-now-available/

I also saw that YouGov poll... although I think the question was very
misleading. If  we had commissioned a poll with the question "do you
think that our nation's cultural heritage should be placed in jeopardy
in order to provide more income for a handful of already wealthy
musicians?", i think we would have seen a very different response
(although that would be equally as biased - impartiality is a
difficult thing to achieve in these situations). ;-)

Cheers!

Tim

On 11/15/06, Paul Harkins <paul AT extrayardmusic.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> Have there been any reviews of this event and any word on availability of an
> online video?
>
> Some surprising and slightly worrying news taken from industry magazine,
> Five Eight's daily bulletin:
>
> A new consumer study conducted by the BPI/YouGov finds that 62% of consumers
> feel the copyright period for sound recordings in the UK should be extended
> from the current 50 years to 95 years (to bring it in line with the US). For
> 18-29-year-olds, the level of support for a copyright extension rises to
> 70%. Only 20% of the 2,034 people polled were opposed to an extension in the
> copyright term while 18% were unsure. The BPI is hoping that these findings
> will help the music industry's case in the Gowers Review of intellectual
> property in the UK. As we argued in the May issue of Five Eight, any changes
> in the copyright term must be accompanied with a set of new provisions for
> both recording artists and music consumers:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6141038.stm
> http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1945523,00.html
>
> Thank goodness for the British Library!
>
> Paul
>
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Timothy Cowlishaw
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> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 10:56 AM
> Subject: [Cc-uk] Release the Music! London - 13/11/06
>
>
> The Open Rights Group is doing a free event at Conway Hall,  London,
> on the 13 November to examine
> whether or not copyright term should be extended for sound recordings.
> If you want to come, then you can sign up online:
>
> http://releasethemusic.eventbrite.com
>
> I'd be really grateful if you could forward this event info on to
> whatever lists you may be on which might be relevant, or blog it if
> you're inclined to.
>
> Hope to see some of you there!
>
>
> http://www.openrightsgroup.org
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------
> Should the term of copyright protection on sound recordings stay at 50
> years or be extended?
>
> This question has been hanging in the air for the last couple of
> years, with the music industry lobbying government for an extension on
> the grounds that the royalties they earn from old recordings are
> essential to bringing new acts to the stage and supporting ageing
> musicians. They believe that copyright term on sound recordings should
> be the same length as the copyright in the composition, which
> currently stands at life plus 70 years.
>
> On the other hand, copyright reformers argue that term should remain
> the same in order to protect the public domain and to free the huge
> number of old recordings which are no longer commercially viable and
> therefore not being released by the record labels. They also argue
> that there is a greater economic benefit to allowing works to pass
> into the public domain after 50 years so that new works can be made
> from them and new businesses that specialise in niche markets can
> flourish.
>
> This question of term extension, along with many others, is now being
> considered by Andrew Gowers in his Review of Intellectual Property
> which was commissioned by the Treasury and is due to report before the
> end of the year.
>
> The Open Rights Group believes that term extension is such an
> important issue that it deserves focused and rigourous discussion, so
> we've invited people from number of backgrounds to give us their
> thoughts and opinions.
>
> We would be delighted if you could join us - the event is free to all,
> but places are limited so book now!
>
> Schedule:
>
> 6.00pm - Registration.
> 6.30pm - Keynote by Professor Jonathan Zittrain, Chair in Internet
> Governance and Regulation at Oxford University.
> 7.30pm - Panel Discussion, moderated by John Howkins, RSA & Adelphi
> Charter; guests include Caroline Wilson, University of Southampton,
> Faculty of Law; others TBC.
> 8.30pm - DJ set by The Chaps, playing a pre-1955 public domain set.
> 10.00pm - Close.
>
> If you sign up, but find you are not able to come, please do let us
> know so we can release your seat to someone else.
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