European Parliament to hold public meeting on copyright extension

The European Parliament will next week have an open meeting on proposals to extend the recording copyright. As previously reported, the record industry is lobbying both at a UK and European level to have the recording copyright, currently 50 years, to be extended to 95 years to bring it in line with the American copyright. The IFPI's Frances Moore, Willemien Bax from European consumer rights body BEUC and Professor Lionel Bently from the University of Cambridge are among those expected to present to the hearing.