Canadian Prime Minister To Music Lobby: Here's Your Copyright Term Extension

An anonymous reader writes: The Canadian government's decision to extend the term of copyright for sound recordings in the budget may have taken most copyright observers by surprise, but not the music industry. The extension will reduce competition, increase costs for consumers, and harm access to Canadian Heritage, but apparently all it took was a letter from the music industry lobby to the Prime Minister of Canada. Michael Geist reports on a letter sent by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to the music lobby on the day the change was announced confirming that industry lobbying convinced him to extend the term of copyright without any public consultation or discussion.

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Re:Politicans who forget who voted for them...

[AK Marc]

There is lots of evidence that the music industry gave bribes, they are just the legal kind, called "donations".