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Tag: Collecting societies

EU pushes for single online music licensing - 08 January 2010 - News

A pan-European or 'multi-territory' licensing system for online music and films is gaining momentum as the Spanish EU Presidency intends to tackle digital copyright and online piracy in 2010.

Collecting societies split over online music royalties - 23 July 2007 - News

Commitments signed earlier this month by CISAC, the global federation of copyright collecting societies that organise the collection of music royalties, have led to a split between large and small authors' societies across Europe. 

Media companies urge Commission to turn down copyright proposal - 13 July 2007 - News

A coalition of large media companies in the broadband and online TV markets have urged the Commission to reject the terms under which collecting societies have proposed to share benefits of online music, saying that the proposed deal would stifle competition and harm cultural diversity.

MEPs call for online-music directive - 14 March 2007 - News

The Parliament has attacked the Commission on what it perceives as the "soft-law approach" that it chose to harmonise member states' rules on copyright for online music services. 

Commission opens consultation on online music distribution - 24 August 2005 - News

The Commission has opened a public consultation on a commitment from Dutch and Belgian music copyright collecting societies - BUMA and SABAM respectively - concerning online music licensing.

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