European Union Seeks Longer Music Copyrights
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The move to extend copyright protection for singers and musicians to 95 years is intended to let performers receive royalty payments later in life.
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Paul McCartney, U2 and Eric Clapton joined thousands of other musicians Thursday in an appeal to the government to extend the British copyright protection on their recordings.
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The picture of Dorian Gray Sir Cliff European internal markets commissioner Charlie McCreevy has thrown his weight behind the long-running record industry campaign to extend copyright protection for sound recordings.â¦
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You're still all thieving bastards though The European Commission is to consult on whether to change the current controversial surcharge on devices or storage media which can hold music or video.â¦
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David Cameron pledges to extend music copyright to 70 years in exchange for an effort to curb anti-social music.
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Apple Inc. and four of the biggest record companies have until Wednesday to submit their written response to antitrust charges that they restricted online sales of music in Europe.
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The European Commission has delayed a  decision on whether to reform a tax on gadgets such as MP3  players that can reproduce copyright material, the European  Union executive said on Wednesday.
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Copying music from a CD to a home computer could be made legal under proposals from the UK government.
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Reformers shift battleground to Court of Justice The European Commission has quietly iced plans to reform copyright levies, just days before they were due to go into effect.â¦
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Proposed law would allow more people to be charged with criminal copyright violations.
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Executives from Nokia and Philips published an open letter today calling for the European Commission to consider scaling back, if not eliminating, imposing levies on digital recording media and playback devices, including DVRs and MP3 players. But the alternative may be a hard sell: increased DRM.
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LONDON: The piracy-battered music industry said on Thursday it will sue British, French and Austrian music fans for the first time as it intensifies its legal crackdown on Internet song-swappers.
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Music performers could see a big boost to their lifetime earnings under EU plans to extend music rights.
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A European project aims to change how people receive their digital entertainment in the future.
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Universal Music Group has secured a 'short extension' allowing them more time to submit their written response to E.U. iTunes anti-trust charges.
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Blog: A ruling by the top court in the European Union deals another blow to the recording industry's efforts to fight the distribution of copyrighted recordings through file-sharing networks.
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The U.K. is looking to change copyright laws that make it illegal to copy music for personal use and for libraries to archive material under copyright.