[ARSCLIST] Fw: [78-l] Break out the champaign Lennick

["Steven C. Barr(x)" <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Haven't seen this on ARSCLIST yet...and it OUGHTA be!
Steven C. Barr
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Subject: [78-l] Break out the champaign Lennick


> No copyright extension for songs
> The copyright on sound recordings will not be extended after an independent
> review commissioned by the Treasury.
> Sir Cliff Richard and Jethro Tull had been among artists lobbying for
> copyright to last 95 years, rather than the present 50.
>
> The decision means that from 2008 Sir Cliff's earliest recordings will start
> to come out of copyright.
>
> The review was conducted for Chancellor Gordon Brown by Andrew Gowers, a
> former editor of the Financial Times.
>
> His first big hit was Move It, recorded in 1958, when he was hailed as the
> British Elvis.
>
> Royalties 'gone'
>
> It also means the earliest official recordings from The Beatles, from 1963,
> will be out of copyright in 2013.
>
> Music journalist Neil McCormack told BBC Radio Five Live it was a blow to the
> industry.
>
> "This was set before the advent, the big boom of rock and roll. The boom in
> popular culture which has led to a whole vast number of people making their
> living from these royalties.
>
> "You can make a record in 1955 and have been getting royalties... been living
> on that and suddenly they're gone."
>
>
> Story from BBC NEWS:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/entertainment/6186436.stm
>
> Published: 2006/11/26 22:40:29 GMT
>
> ) BBC MMVI
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