{"id":2123,"date":"2007-07-24T12:19:43","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T17:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=375"},"modified":"2007-07-24T12:19:43","modified_gmt":"2007-07-24T17:19:43","slug":"britian-rejects-copyright-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/24\/britian-rejects-copyright-extension.html","title":{"rendered":"Britain Rejects Copyright Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The British Government has <a href=\"http:\/\/business.guardian.co.uk\/story\/0,,2133762,00.html\">rejected<\/a> an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/internetNews\/idUSL2442476820070724\">extension<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20070724-uk-government-resists-music-industry-pressure-caps-copyrights-at-50-years.html\">copyright<\/a> beyond the current\u00a050 year term.\u00a0 This is interesting for a few reasons, including the impending rush of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/British_Invasion\">British Invasion music<\/a> becoming royalty-free, but mostly because it may signal a sea change in the world&#8217;s approach to copyright terms.<\/p>\n<p>It is far from over, however, as music publisher&#8217;s and musicians are working to pass EU legislation to extend protection beyond the current limits.<\/p>\n<p>found on <a href=\"http:\/\/williampatry.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/gordon-brown-follows-gowers.html\">The Patry Copyright Blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Government has rejected an extension of copyright beyond the current\u00a050 year term.\u00a0 This is interesting for a few reasons, including the impending rush of British Invasion music becoming royalty-free, but mostly because it may signal a sea change &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/24\/britian-rejects-copyright-extension.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2925,2935,2948,2959],"tags":[3544,3545],"class_list":["post-2123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright","category-government","category-news","category-politics","tag-british-government","tag-european-union"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-yf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}