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Copyright Term For Producers And Performers

EDM number 1392 in 2006-07, proposed by Michael Connarty on 01/05/2007.

That this House notes that 50 years ago Lonnie Donegan's Cumberland Gap was No. 1 in the charts for five weeks; is concerned that due to the present law governing payments for use of audio recordings this track will go out of copyright at the end of 2007 and that the family of Lonnie Donegan, who would have been 76 on 29th April, and the other performers, Denny Wright, John Nicholls and Mickey Ashman, and their company Pye Records, which produced this unique recording, will no longer receive any royalties, nor have any say in how this recording is used; is further concerned that thousands of musicians and their record companies will lose out over the next few years because of the shorter copyright term for sound recordings relative to that granted to almost all other creators, including the songwriters and the sleeve artists who enjoy copyright for the whole of their life plus a further 70 years; notes with concern that, according to a Musicians Union survey, 90 per cent. of musicians earn less than £15,000 a year, and thus acknowledges that the extension of copyright will come as a much needed financial boost to many low paid musicians; and asks the Government to make representations to the European Commission to look at this inequity.

This motion has been signed by a total of 92 MPs, 3 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Michael Connarty01/05/2007Linlithgow and East FalkirkLabourProposed
John Robertson01/05/2007Glasgow North WestLabourSeconded
Mark Field01/05/2007Cities of London and WestminsterConservativeSeconded
John Hemming01/05/2007Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSeconded
Greg Knight01/05/2007East YorkshireConservativeSeconded
Janet Anderson01/05/2007Rossendale and DarwenLabourSeconded
Tom Clarke01/05/2007Coatbridge, Chryston and BellshillLabourSigned
Peter Bottomley01/05/2007Worthing WestConservativeSigned
David Clelland01/05/2007Tyne BridgeLabourSigned
Ian Davidson01/05/2007Glasgow South WestLabourSigned
Frank Dobson01/05/2007Holborn and St PancrasLabourSigned
Mike Gapes01/05/2007Ilford SouthLabourSigned
Ian Gibson01/05/2007Norwich NorthLabourSigned
Joe Benton01/05/2007BootleLabourSigned
David Taylor01/05/2007North West LeicestershireLabourSigned
Barbara Keeley01/05/2007WorsleyLabourSigned
Michael Penning01/05/2007Hemel HempsteadConservativeSigned
Judy Mallaber01/05/2007Amber ValleyLabourSigned
Rosemary McKenna01/05/2007Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch EastLabourSigned
Bob Russell01/05/2007ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Doug Henderson01/05/2007Newcastle upon Tyne NorthLabourSigned
Jimmy Hood01/05/2007Lanark and Hamilton EastLabourSigned
Nigel Griffiths01/05/2007Edinburgh SouthLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins01/05/2007Luton NorthLabourSigned
George Howarth01/05/2007Knowsley North and Sefton EastLabourSigned
Lynne Jones01/05/2007Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Alan Keen01/05/2007Feltham and HestonLabourSigned
David Lepper01/05/2007Brighton, PavilionLabourSigned
Philip Davies02/05/2007ShipleyConservativeSigned
Rudi Vis02/05/2007Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Hywel Francis02/05/2007AberavonLabourSigned
Jim Dobbin02/05/2007Heywood and MiddletonLabourSigned
Colin Breed02/05/2007South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Jeremy Corbyn02/05/2007Islington NorthLabourSigned
Martin Caton02/05/2007GowerLabourSigned
Elfyn Llwyd02/05/2007Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Glenda Jackson02/05/2007Hampstead and HighgateLabourSigned
Brian Iddon02/05/2007Bolton South EastLabourSigned
Dennis Skinner02/05/2007BolsoverLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins03/05/2007TamworthLabourSigned
Ann McKechin03/05/2007Glasgow NorthLabourSigned
Edward O'Hara03/05/2007Knowsley SouthLabourSigned
David Drew03/05/2007StroudLabourSigned
Betty Williams08/05/2007ConwyLabourSigned
Mike Hancock08/05/2007Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Jabez Foster08/05/2007Hastings and RyeLabourSigned
Derek Conway08/05/2007Old Bexley & SidcupConservativeSigned
Bill Etherington08/05/2007Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Harry Cohen08/05/2007Leyton and WansteadLabourSigned
Alan Meale08/05/2007MansfieldLabourSigned
John McDonnell08/05/2007Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Ann Cryer08/05/2007KeighleyLabourSigned
David Anderson09/05/2007BlaydonLabourSigned
Jennifer Willott09/05/2007Cardiff CentralLiberal DemocratSigned
Jim McGovern09/05/2007Dundee WestLabourSigned
John Grogan09/05/2007SelbyLabourSigned
David Amess09/05/2007Southend WestConservativeSigned
Frank Cook09/05/2007Stockton NorthLabourSigned
David Chaytor09/05/2007Bury NorthLabourSigned
Doug Naysmith09/05/2007Bristol North WestLabourSigned
David Marshall09/05/2007Glasgow EastLabourSigned
Peter Luff09/05/2007Mid WorcestershireConservativeSigned
Dai Havard09/05/2007Merthyr Tydfil and RhymneyLabourSigned
Vincent Cable10/05/2007TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Clapham10/05/2007Barnsley West and PenistoneLabourSigned
Mark Durkan10/05/2007FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
David Borrow10/05/2007South RibbleLabourSigned
Gavin Strang10/05/2007Edinburgh EastLabourSigned
Desmond Turner10/05/2007Brighton, KemptownLabourSigned
Janet Dean14/05/2007BurtonLabourSigned
Pete Wishart14/05/2007Perth and North PerthshireScottish National PartySigned
Frank Doran14/05/2007Aberdeen NorthLabourSigned
Alan Simpson14/05/2007Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Jeffrey M Donaldson14/05/2007Lagan ValleyDUPSigned
Alasdair McDonnell15/05/2007Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Colin Burgon15/05/2007ElmetLabourSigned
Jeff Ennis17/05/2007Barnsley East and MexboroughLabourSigned
Neil Gerrard18/05/2007WalthamstowLabourSigned
David Hamilton21/05/2007MidlothianLabourSigned
Chris Ruane22/05/2007Vale of ClwydLabourSigned
Don Foster23/05/2007BathLiberal DemocratSigned
Jim Devine24/05/2007LivingstonLabourSigned
Mark Fisher24/05/2007Stoke-on-Trent CentralLabourSigned
Julie Morgan11/06/2007Cardiff NorthLabourSigned
Nicholas Clegg12/06/2007Sheffield, HallamLiberal DemocratSigned
Eric Illsley20/06/2007Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
John Austin23/07/2007Erith and ThamesmeadLabourSigned
Andrew Pelling26/07/2007Croydon CentralConservativeSigned
Paul Rowen29/10/2007RochdaleLiberal DemocratSigned
Wayne DavidUnknownWithdrawn
Stephen WilliamsUnknownWithdrawn
Jane KennedyUnknownWithdrawn

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