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Many advocates and experts from around the world have had a long and hard fought battle to stop the major copyright industry's push to extend the term of copyright. It's very likely to be welcome news in Britain when this kind of opinion comes from "leading European centres for intellectual property research". In the last couple of months, copyright term extension in Britain seems to have become a dormant topic. The last major movement in this field came back in early March where a British MP objected to Copyright Term Extension legislation. Now, the Open Rights Group is reporting that top legal advisers are saying that, among other things, "The proposed Copyright Extension Directive will damage European creative endeavour and innovation beyond repair.