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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Musician intends to win back control of his copyright on the Web.
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(InfoWorld) - Apple and four of the biggest record companies have until Wednesday to submit their written response toÂ antitrust charges that they restricted online sales of musicÂ in Europe. The deadline originally expired at the beginning of June, but was extended by two weeks at the request of Apple and three of the record companies, European Commission competition spokesman Jonathan Todd said Monday. The Commission is still waiting for replies from these four companies. The one record company that didn't request an extension has already submitted its written response, Todd said. The Commission has declined to name the record companies involved but they are assumed to be the four majors: Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, Warner Music, and EMI Group. "We have every reason to believe that the remaining companies will reply by the new deadline," Todd said. Downloads from Apple's iTunes Web site are priced differently in different countries in the Union but consumers are prevented from shopping around and have to make their purchases of music from the iTunes site in the country they are based. The Commission said that in the single European market the distribution agreements between the record companies and Apple could amount to restrictive practices. Apple claims it has always tried to operate a single pan-European iTunes store accessible by anyone from any member state but has been prevented from doing so by the record labels and publishers.ADVERTISEMENTIBM Information On Demand 2006Industrial Industry Leaders, please join us at IBM's premier information management global event, IBM Information On Demand 2006, October 15-20, Anaheim, CA. More IBM business and technical solutions content in one place than ever before! Select from  over 800 sessions. Register today!
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They are asking the European Union Council to reject this proposal. They claim that software patent directive would be harmful to the European economy.
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European consumers want music not video or games on their portable gadgets. According to Jupiter Research only a lowly five per cent of people would like a music player which could also play films.
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Rip, mix, re-rip, type The European Union's Bulgarian 'commissioner for consumers', Meglena Kuneva, has hit out at the Balkanised world of digital music.â¦
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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.The U.K. Intellectual Property Office, which handles patent and copyright issues, released proposals on Tuesday that would amend the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988. The proposals will be evaluated through April 8.The proposals were taken from a study released in December 2006, the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property, which recommended a raft of changes to U.K. copyright law.The U.K. remains one of the few European countries that still prohibits private copying for personal use. Germany and France, as well as the U.S., have exception in their laws to let someone, for example, make MP3s on their computer from a CD they own, or copy a record to a cassette tape.However, the U.K.&#39;s personal copying law isn&#39;t enforced, and most of the British public are unaware of it, according to the Gowers review. The fact that violators go unpunished &quot;adds to the general sense of illegitimacy around copyright law,&quot; the review said.The proposals would create a limited exception for personal copying. Also, libraries would be allowed to legally make archive copies of material for preservation purposes.The British Library has been in favor of amending some copyright regulations, as it has said parts of its collection are deteriorating, but copyright law prohibits them from making backup copies.The proposals would also make a new exception for material that parodies something under copyright and leeway for schools conducting distance learning activities.
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The music industry claimed another legal victory in its battle against illegal file sharing in Europe on Friday, but the win may not last long.
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Paul McCartney and Robbie Williams joined thousands of other performers on Thursday in an appeal for an extension to British copyright on their recordings.
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The international record industry escalated its fight against music piracy Thursday, announcing that it will file hundreds of lawsuits across Europe against individuals and groups it accuses of illegally sharing music through the Internet.
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MEPs still mulling it over The European Parliament has once again postponed the vote on the latest version of the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) directive. This time, the delay is to "find a final compromise" on the definition of what will consitute "commercial scale" infringement under the new proposals.â¦
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Copy protection technologies used to prevent CDs from being pirated online are facing a legal challenge in France, where a judge began a formal investigation of record label EMI Group PLC for using them.
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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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Impala, a group representing 2,000 smaller record labels, said Wednesday it would ask the European Union&#39;s high court to overturn a decision by EU regulators approving the merger between the music units of Japan&#39;s Sony Corp.
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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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Proposed law would allow more people to be charged with criminal copyright violations.
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The decision by a group of European labels to legally challenge the European Commission's approval of the Sony/BMG merger could raise questions for future deals.