[Gllug] Some good news - copyright on sound recordings not to be extended

[Jason Clifford]

On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Alain Williams wrote:

> > Why do we need perpetual copyright on selected materials just because the 
> > proceeds go to a hospital that is supposed to be NHS funded?
> 
> That is a quirky one off. I actually support odd-balls like this, it is like
> the guy in Oxford who has a shark rising out of his roof[**], if done everywhere
> it would not be acceptable.
> 
> The copyright extension of Peter Pan does benefit a hospital, it does not cause
> major problems to the theatre/book/... worlds and so I think is acceptable.

Numerous books published after the real copyright expired had to be either 
pulled or suddenly found themselves presented with royalty bills which 
were retrospective. That was a very major problem!

The NHS is funded from taxes. This is an NHS hospital.

The deal with copyright is fixed term total protection (supposedly to 
benefit the authors). This violates the deal.

Don't forget that every abusive extension to copyright is done in 
increments pointing to the previous extension in another field to justify 
the current attempt I guarantee you this will result in extensions to 
copyright sooner or later if it is not resisted.

We do not need copyright to last life + 70 years. We certainly don't need 
perpetual copyright.

Jason
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