{"id":22,"date":"2005-06-07T11:27:52","date_gmt":"2005-06-07T15:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/driscolldev\/2005\/06\/07\/doubled-copyright-term-for-uk-pop"},"modified":"2005-06-07T11:27:52","modified_gmt":"2005-06-07T15:27:52","slug":"doubled-copyright-term-for-uk-pop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/2005\/06\/07\/doubled-copyright-term-for-uk-pop\/","title":{"rendered":"Doubled copyright term for UK pop?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a26'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rather than reduce the term of copyright and create incentives for the creation of a more democratic media ecosystem, UK minister for creative industries <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,2087-1641428,00.html\">James<br \/>\nPurnell has voiced support for doubling the duration of copyright protection on pop music to 100 years<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Bands like Coldplay will make enough money for their company to help them discover around 50 or 100 bands,&#8221; says Purnell. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/SHOWBIZ\/Music\/05\/30\/ringtone.ap\/\">a ringtone topping the UK charts<\/a>, extending the term of copyright protection is not the right path to a greater diversity of voices pop music. It will instead achieve the opposite effect by encouraging the perpetuation of a non-competitive music industry presently failing to properly compensate artists or satisfy consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rather than reduce the term of copyright and create incentives for the creation of a more democratic media ecosystem, UK minister for creative industries James Purnell has voiced support for doubling the duration of copyright protection on pop music to 100 years. &#8220;Bands like Coldplay will make enough money for their company to help them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}