Open rights

The Open Rights Group has, unsurprisingly, a lot to say about the House of Lords' Constitution Committee report n surveillance and privacy here.  They also report the Sound Copyright conference  athe European parliament, where it sounds as if all concerned hit out at the "fairy tale" of copyright extension - the notion that the proposed extension of copyright for sound recordings will help performers rather than simply line the pockets of a small number of multinational record companies - another breed of IP absolutists, perhaps!