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European Commission wants single regulatory framework for music copyright

As part of the whole Digital Economy Bill/Digital Britain debate one of the complaints being levelled at the music industry is that it makes it too expensive and difficult to make music legally available online at an economic price. 

Part of this is the fact that every country has different copyright licensing laws and channels such as Yahoo, AOL et al find it difficult to negotiate a satisfactory arrangement that would allow them to operate on their international cross border scale. 

The EU has now come off the fence and decided it needsto do something about it and if the Commission gets its way, national collecting societies that manage the rights of online content will have to integrate their systems. Hooray and about time.

You can check out theEurActiv.com piece on the subject here and a more detailed discussion document dating from October 09 here. What I can’t see is any timescale around this so I suspect I might be getting excited a bit prematurely but lets see how it goes.

Trefor Davies

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One reply on “European Commission wants single regulatory framework for music copyright”

maybe mandy will listen to the EU as well as his meeja mates, but I doubt anything can stop him forcing his crackpot path through parliament. His sole aim seems to be that of a control freak. Determined to protect an obsolete business model. Let us live in hope that the EU shows a bit of sense.

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