Der Urheberschutz für Musikstücke ist in der EU momentan auf 50 Jahre begrenzt. Doch das reicht ganz offensichtlich nicht. Deshalb plant die EU, das Copyright auf 95 Jahre zu verlängern. Viel Spass damit:
The proposal is supposed to secure the pensions of long forgotten artists. In a statement, McCreevy said “I am not talking about featured artists like Cliff Richard or Charles Aznavour. I am talking about the thousands of anonymous session musicians who contributed to sound recordings in the late fifties and sixties. They will no longer get airplay royalties from their recordings. But these royalties are often their sole pension.”
According to the Financial Times, the proposal could come up to vote as early as this Wednesday, July 16th. Also up for discussion would be a plan to split up rights societies by the antitrust arm of the commission, potentially making rights societies compete against each other for the rights to collect royalties from artists.
