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April 29, 2015 08:00 am

The Power of Backroom Lobbying: How the Music Industry Got a Copyright Extension

An anonymous reader writes: The Canadian government's unexpected budget decision to extendthe term of copyright for sound recordings came as a surprise to most copyright watchers, but not the music industry lobby, which was ready with a press release within minutes. How did the industry seemingly know this was coming? Michael Geist reports that records show the extension is the result of backroom lobbying with monthly meetings between senior government officials and music industry lobbyists paving the way for copyright term extension without public consultation or debate.

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