Record companies rocked by loss of rights

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Record companies rocked by loss of rights

Managing IP Correspondent
November 01 2004
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The realization that classic tracks will soon be in the public domain is prompting record companies and affected artists to demand that Europe increases the duration of sound recording copyright, as Andrew Forbes and Jane Mulcahy explain

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