Hay días que parece que el mundo se ha vuelto loco

You may have heard about the EU Commission's proposal to extend the copyright term on sound recordings to 95 years, the result of which would presumably be to decimate access to early recordings--as has happened in the US since the term was extended there. A group of academics working in areas from musicology to intellectual property law has issued an evidence-based statement addressing the various arguments put forward by the Commission. You can find a copy of the statement, together with a letter to the President of the Commission, at

http://www.cippm.org.uk/publications/index.html.

Nicholas Cook
Director, AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music
Royal Holloway, University of London