Digital music service providers will be able to...
Digital music service providers will be able to get licenses more easily and musicians will get royalties faster under rules approved Tuesday by the European Parliament Legal Affairs (JURI) Committee, it said. The report, which responds to a European Commission…
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proposal, calls for simple and transparent licensing of copyrighted music, and will spur more legal offerings and better access to online content for consumers, said author Marielle Gallo, of France and the European People’s Party. In the future, instead of having to deal with authors’ collective management societies in every EU member country, music service providers will be able to get licenses from a small number of such organizations operating across borders, JURI said. It backed an amendment ensuring that smaller and less popular repertoires also have access to the market by requiring collecting societies to issue licenses under the same conditions for all music inventories. Lawmakers also amended the EC proposal by cutting the deadline for payment of royalties to rights owners from 12 to three months from the end of the financial year in which the revenue was collected, the committee said. Its negotiators will now start talks with EU ministers.