Copyrightwatch: Damn the facts, full term-extension ahead!

Copyrightwatch: Damn the facts, full term-extension ahead!

Taking a page out of the Canadian handbook, the European Union ignores sound economic and statistical analyses and gives the copyright industry what it wants anyway.

This was Andrew Gowers in 2006:

4.32 The incentives argument is sometimes applied to artists as well as to record companies. That is, if musicians were to receive royalties for an additional period of time, they would have more incentives to make music. This seems highly unlikely given there are a large number of bands already creating music without any hope of a financial return. Dave Rowntree, drummer with Blur and The Ailerons, commented that: “I have never heard of a single one [band] deciding not to record a song because it will fall out of copyright in ‘only’ fifty years. The idea is laughable.”