[Ecommerce] New IFPI Boss Vows to Extend Recording Copyrights

[Jeff Williams]

All,

  John Kennedy, President and COO of Universal
Music is to succeed Jay Berman as Chairman of the IFPI, the worldwide
equivalent to the RIAA. Andrew Orlowski of The Register has written an
article covering John Kennedy's views on copyright infringement and
the public domain. Although Kennedy's thoughts on the former are
predictable, he has vowed to fight hard to extend European recording
copyrights past the current fifty year term. An extension of the
European
term to match the US would be particularly damaging to the public
domain and efforts such as the Internet Archive as well as increasing
the control that the recording industry holds over performers.

See:
 http://www.ifpi.org/site-content/press/20040913.html
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/23/ifpi_boss_keynote/
 http://www.archive.org/
 http://www.negativland.com/albini.html

Regards,

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