{"id":1729,"date":"2006-11-27T14:13:37","date_gmt":"2006-11-27T14:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2006\/11\/great_music_cop\/"},"modified":"2006-11-27T14:13:37","modified_gmt":"2006-11-27T14:13:37","slug":"great_music_cop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/great_music_cop\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Music Copyright News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/6186436.stm\">best news<\/a> recently has got to be that the UK is not going to extend the copyright on music beyond the current 50 years to a proposed 95 years. The rather random seeming 95 years is because that&#8217;s what it is in America.<br \/>\nAs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/weblog\/archive\/001836.html\">I&#8217;ve mentioned before<\/a>, record companies are seemingly unable to make enough cash from their copyrights over a 50 year period. That&#8217;s why the poor businesses neeeded help doubling it.<br \/>\nWell that seems to be have been knocked on the head (although I&#8217;ll wait until the official verdict is in). Of course, whilst the first Beatles tracks come out of copyright in the UK in 2013, the songs&#8217; composers (or rights holder &#8211; so in this instance, Michael Jackson\/Sony) still get paid, and will carry on getting money until they&#8217;ve been dead for 70 years (not sure what the means for Lennon\/McCartney catalogue when they or their estates don&#8217;t own it). So it&#8217;s not as though song writers will be destitute.<br \/>\nMind you, I don&#8217;t know how many of his songs, Cliff Richard (one of the campaigners for the increase to 95 years) actually wrote. One way or another, I wouldn&#8217;t have thought he was very poor. So quite why he feels that I shouldn&#8217;t be able to do some interesting new things with his early songs, I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the best news recently has got to be that the UK is not going to extend the copyright on music beyond the current 50 years to a proposed 95 years. The rather random seeming 95 years is because that&#8217;s what it is in America. As I&#8217;ve mentioned before, record companies are seemingly unable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}