Who benefits from extending the copyright term for sound recordings?

Record labels and mega-rich performers could cash in on change pioneered by Cliff RichardSo finally the music industry has managed to get by with a little help from a few friends. Label bosses may not have succeeded in the battle to cut off the internet connections to homes of families whose teenage children illegally download a few Eminem tracks, but they have at last prevailed in a decade-long battle to persuade Brussels to increase the copyright term for sound recordings from 50 years to 70.S...

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