Showing posts with label collecting societies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label collecting societies. Show all posts
Tuesday, 22 December 2015

Can we always trust copyright licensing?

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The 1709's knowledgeable readership will be well aware that royalties are the lifeblood of the copyright 'promise...
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Monday, 27 July 2015

Digitised out-of-print books and authors' rights: a new question for the CJEU

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Case C-301/15 Soulier et Doke is on its way from France to Luxembourg for a ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). ...
Monday, 16 September 2013

Collective Copyright Trolling?

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Just over a week ago Australia elected a new Federal Government, and many people are watching closely to see how copyright policy will chang...
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Monday, 9 September 2013

UK Government launches public consultation on regulation of licensing bodies

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Lovely friends, mouth-watering food and  a 4-hour discussion on licensing bodies and  UK Government consultation = THE perfect night ...
Friday, 12 April 2013

Breaking news: CISAC, others, gain partial cancellation of Commission decision

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The General Court (Sixth Chamber) of the European Union has just given its keenly-awaited judgment in Case T‑442/08 International Confede...
Friday, 30 November 2012

PRS For Music Launches new Code of Conduct

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PRS for Music , the not for profit organisation that represents 95,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers in the UK, has launched...
Wednesday, 22 August 2012

Google fights proposed charge on news snippets and headlines

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News aggregation sites: newspapers can't live with them and can't live without them. Is the newspaper a dying breed? In J...
Tuesday, 14 August 2012

Another question: collecting societies and payment thresholds

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This blogger is just starting to get a few emails trickling in by way of response to yesterday's request for recommended reading materia...
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Monday, 16 July 2012

Easy Music Licensing: or will it be ...?

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Last week the 1709 Blog briefly mentioned the draft EU Directive on Music Licensing and Collecting Societies. Phil Sherrell (Bird & ...
Wednesday, 11 July 2012

"Easier music licensing": today's proposals

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Here it is, hot off the press, thanks to the vigilant Magali Delhaye who spotted it first -- it's the media release on the new Commissio...
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Wednesday, 6 June 2012

The Commission v The Collecting Societies: this week's hearing

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This week's Curia agenda contained the following item on Monday: Hearing: Joined cases T-413/08   SOZA v Commission   T-414/08   ...
Tuesday, 22 May 2012

Is it time for a super society?

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Some of the criticsms levelled at the music industry in the digital age have been those directed at outdated and ineffective licensing m...
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Friday, 20 April 2012

YouTube needs a Monitor

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YouTube today lost a dispute before the Regional Court of Hamburg (LG Hamburg) against German collecting society GEMA (court press releas...
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Sunday, 22 January 2012

PM Monti opens the Italian market for neighbouring rights

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Prof Monti explaining the reforms included in the Decreto Liberalizzazioni Here's some news from the Italian side of the world of ...
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Friday, 16 December 2011

Less admin, more cash? Viscopy hands operations to CAL

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The 1709 Blog has learned from its Australian friend John Walker that  Viscopy (the Australian sister to the UK's Design and Artists Co...
Friday, 2 December 2011

Keep in Touch With the Dutch

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Melchior the Magi Torrent Freak reports a sad tale about Netherlands collecting society BUMA/Stemra which does little credit to either t...
Thursday, 10 November 2011

Make Mine a Brazilian

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To add to Ben Challis’ report from Portcullis House, the event attendees were provided with a useful four page leaflet produced by Pictfor, ...
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