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Term-extension pendulum swings back in music industry's favour.
Culture Secretary suggests Government rethink on copyright term extension as industry figures scent victory
The issue of extending recorded copyright has now finally moved back in favour of the music industry after Culture Secretary Andy Burnham sensationally opened the door to a Government policy rethink.
His disclosure to Music Week that the Government is ready to discuss the issue again has turned what felt like a pipe dream only a few weeks ago into a very achievable aim.
That much was clearly evident at the launch of Peter Wishart's Private Member's Bill last Wednesday. The Scottish National Party MP's Bill had originally been seen as a small, albeit valuable, sidebar in the copyright term debate. Even Wishart had not expected it to be given much - if any - Parliamentary time.
But the EC's dramatic announcement last month to implement term extension coupled with a thawing of the UK Government's stance on the issue - evidenced by Burnham's latest comments - has now seen Wishart's Copyright in Sound Recordings and Performers' Rights (Term Extension) Bill 2008 propelled to centre stage. Burnham himself recognises this fact. "Pete Wishart is obviously raising it (term) in Parliament so it will be an issue in Parliament - let's see where the debate takes us," says the Secretary of State.
The launch of the Wishart legislation saw a raft of top industry executives and artists, who have been agitating tirelessly over the last few years for term extension, pack into a tiny room in the House of Commons to celebrate what seemed like a significant tipping point.
They - among them IFPI chairman and CEO John Kennedy, PPL and VPL chairman and CEO Fran Nevrkla and his director of government affairs colleague Dominic McGonigal, BPI director of public affairs Richard Mollet, producer Robin Millar and Musicians' Union boss John Smith - could almost taste victory. Millar says, "Gowers is toast." Smith concedes that the debate has been a "rollercoaster" with John Whittingdale's Culture Select Committee saying `yes' to extension last May, but the Department of Culture, Media and Sport saying `no'. However, he believes the McCreevy proposals for 95 years means, "Gowers is an embarrassment for the Government. It is up to Andy Burnham now."
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