COPYRIGHT CHANGES
Composers To Lodge Protest
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, December 10. A group of New Zealand composers will try to see the Minister of Justice (Mr Mason) next week to protest against the recommendations of the Copyright Committee. The chief complaint is against the recommendation that the length of copyright should be changed from 50 years after the death of the author to 56 years from the date of first publication. The committee was set up in 1957 and reported to Parliament this year. Mr Douglas Lilburn said tonight that “publication” meant the date of first performance or broadcast. Meetings of composers had been held in all four main centres and eight resolutions passed. These would be put to Mr Mason. New Zealand composers were not asking for special privileges, but, at the moment, they did not have an equivalent of the State Literary Fund for help, he said. What composers were asking was at least the conditions obtaining for composers in Britain. “We want opportunities to develop our professional field cf work,” said Mr Lilburn.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29075, 11 December 1959, Page 19
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