The whole campaign was rocked recently when the UK Intellectual Property Office presented the UK Government's case to explore 70 years: not only is the Directive issued last year by Internal Market commissioner Charlie McCreevy calling for 95 years, but the UK IPO also asked for a British alternative to the McCreevy-mooted session fund (to divert income derived in the extended period to non-featured artists) to be included in the package.

This latter proposal went down like a lead balloon ...