Good news today — it looks like the push for extension of copyright in the UK has rightly failed. The report’s not out yet, but looks like the BBC has had a bit of an advance look:

No copyright extension for songs
The copyright on sound recordings will not be extended after an independent review commissioned by the Treasury. Sir Cliff Richard and Jethro Tull had been among artists lobbying for copyright to last 95 years, rather than the present 50…

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