From Marcello Perathoner <marcello@perathoner.de> Date Thu, 15 Sep 2005 17:14:19 +0200
The other group are digitial media users, those who purchase various types of digital and electronic media (audio CDs, DVDs, etc.) I'm not sure how big this group is, but it no doubt is in the many 10s of millions in the U.S.
How many of these listen to, say Charlie Parker, and would profit by a reduction of copyright duration?
Ask British Airways. They paid the Gershwin estate a gazillion dollars for the use of "Rhapsody in Blue", a work which is in the public domain in most of the world, but not in the UK's life+70 universe, or in the subverted public domain in the US. Indeed, the Gershwin estate were among the biggest backers of the Sonny Bono Act.