From bad to worse: MEPs to rush through disembowelled term extension directive.
The Open Rights Group (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
... and follow-on innovators. (JURI and ITRE committee draft reports). At the JURI meeting, Dr Lionel Bently of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) Cambridge, dismissed the proposal stating that “record producers will gain the lion’s share of revenues on sales in the extended term”. He warned that the Directive would accrue serious social and economic costs,...
