Q. I had recently heard on BBC world that there is to be a change in European copyright laws for songwriters and performers and wanted to know how you feel about having further compensation if the law goes through.
As always I love you very much and hope you are doing well.
Cecile Bellamy
A. The thing with copyright laws is,my little bird of paradise, A: They are very boring and B: They are rather unfair on our side of the Atlantic.
In a nutshell,US copyright law says that you can earn a royalty for the sale of your art for something like up to 70 odd years after.
Then it goes into the public domain and is up for grabs.In Europe its only about 50 years,hence Cliff is losing out on any sales of his earliest material and soon so will the Beatles,and so on.
I think you'd all agree it would be nice for us old folks to get our pittance as a pensionwell its a pittance in my case,not so much McCartneys.
Andy
PS. The name Bellamy,no relation to one of my all time favourite artists Frank by any chance?
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