   Tuesday, 6 September 2011  Copyright term extension: back on
the agenda  Lurking quietly among the European Union's various
IP legislation goals for the last two years is a proposal to
extend the term of copyright in sound recordings and
performances from 50 to 70 years, starting from the date of
fixation or publication.  The IPKat reported on this issue when
it was being debated in the European Parliament back in 2008 and
2009, a debate which resulted in Members of the European
Parliament (MEPs) voting in favour of an amended proposal which
scaled back the term extension from 95 years to 70 years, and
included mechanisms to ensure that a percentage of the royalties
arising during the extended term would go to session musicians,
regardless of pre-existing contractual arrangements.  After the
vote, silence ... until now  Then everything went relatively
quiet.  Non-European readers might assume that, once the
European Parliament voted in favour of a Directive, the law
would be adopted, subject perhaps to som