As the representative voice of the recorded music business the BPI is responsible for developing and communicating policy with political audiences. The BPI Council, with the support of BPI staff and BPI Committees, set policies for the organisation on behalf of its members.
Currently, our main focus is on the following issues: term of copyright extension, reducing online copyright infringement, copyright in the digital age and education and skills.
We lobby Government and, where possible, work collaboratively with other organisations to implement BPI policy and ensure the survival and future growth of the music business in light of shifting legal structures and rapidly evolving technical development.
Because of our wide membership base and remit, we are able to negotiate and facilitate collective agreements on behalf of the UK's recorded music business. It is in collective action and collective thinking that the BPI is able to best serve our members.
Online copyright infringement will cost the UK music sector an estimated £200m in 2009, with some 7.3 million people engaged in unlawful filesharing. Between the years 2007 and 2012 – according to re
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Sound recordings, like all creative works, are protected by copyright. However, whilst compositions, films, broadcasts and other works are afforded a copyright term of the life of the creator plus 70
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