ESCOM – day 2 | Music and evolution

It seems that as the evenings are about socialising, the time for these daily posts is morning. This  hopefully means that what I write is better because it has been filtered through one night of sleep, but it could of course only mean that these are already out-of-date.
The second day started with two keynote addresses. [...]

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Extending copyright of recorded music

The European Parliament is currently preparing their response to the Commission proposal to extend the copyright of sound recordings from the current 50 year period to 95 years. This proposal has been put together at the request of big record labels and follows a similar extension in the US.
This proposal is problematic to say [...]

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