The Guardian have published a very good article looking at the issues surrounding today’s copyright announcement that declares copyright for recorded music shall remain at 50 years.

This article is interesting as it looks at how the British Library would like the law to favour the archivst and their institution because a large number of recordings they have are crumbling before their eyes. They have ideas for a digital future whereby such recording can be digitised and made public before they get in such a condition whereby they are lost forever.

Karen Coyle, a California expert on digital libraries, “you can’t wait until it starts to deteriorate. You have to begin to preserve it immediately. None of the laws account for that.”

Read the full article here.