Singers push for longer EU copyright

Music performers and producers have attacked EU law for being too stingy on intellectual property when it comes to the length of the copyright after an artist's death.

Under EU rules, authors of songs and their families benefit from copyright for the whole of their lives plus 70 years, while performers of songs and their producers benefit for just 50 years from the date of recording.

The perfomers and producers have now banded together to ask for the same treatment as authors, a...