Who really benefits from the EU’s proposed copyright term extension?
The Open Rights Group has produced a video that neatly encapsulates the objections to the EU’s proposed Copyright Term Extension Directive:
How copyright extension in sound recordings actually works
(If you don’t have Flash installed, an Ogg Vorbis version can be found here)
This is a directive that the Max Planck Institute in Munich, The University for Information Law in Amsterdam, The Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law in Cambridge and The Centre for Intellectual Property Policy Management in Bournemouth have unanimously agreed is unjustified, going so far as to jointly declare it as “a deliberate attempt to mislead the European Parliament” (Source? See the above video).
I’ve left it rather late (but hopefully not too late) to urge anyone reading this to contact their MEP with regard to this matter. Background information and MEP contact details can be found here.