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p2pnet news view P2P | Politics | Music:- Members of Britain’s new Featured Artists Coalition want the European Commission to help them recover their rights to their own music.

As things stand, an EC “use it or lose it” copyright clause means recordings revert to performers if the producer or label no longer wants to market the recording — but only  after half a century.

However, FAC members, including Billy Bragg (right), today met with senior civil servants at the Intellectual Property Office in London in a bid to get the cause whittled down to 35 years

“We also discussed how it might be possible to restrict copyright to short term licences rather than assignment for life of copyright,” says Bragg in a comment post on a2f2a.com, the artists-to-fans-to-artists site he co-founded.

During the meeting “A senior civil servant stated that the focus of copyright was moving from permission to remuneration,” he says, going on:

“Talking afterwards we all felt that was very significant, a tacit acceptance of the FAC argument that non-commercial behaviour needs to be lifted out of copyright law.”

Now Bragg is looking for support to break the cycle from file sharers, “particularly in the big fight that we will have next month when the government publish their Digital Britain Bill,” he says.

Copyright is the “stick that they use to beat you and I believe that, as it is being debated at the highest level over the next six months, as governments ask for submissions on the subject, we can work together to disarm the industry to such an extent that they can no longer beat you up over non-commercial use,” he says.

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November, 2009

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