Call For Action

The European Union (EU) is preparing legislation that will determine how artists receive royalties from their national authors' societies. This is a unique and important opportunity to modernise the collective rights management framework and ensure that all artists are accurately and efficiently rewarded for the commercialisation and use of their creative works across the EU.

1. All European authors' societies must be subject to the same transparency and accountability requirements for the exploitation of our creative works.
2. All authors' societies must provide artists with complete and precise information on revenues collected on our behalf using existing technologies (for example audio fingerprinting). If technically possible, authors' societies should provide online access to this information for all artists.
3. Revenues collected by authors' societies should be efficiently redistributed to artists with the same frequency at which they are collected on our behalf.
4. Artists should be free to choose their collecting society based on which one offers the best service for their requirements.
5. New rules that enable the licensing of full music repertoires across the EU should be introduced while respecting individual artists' rights and encouraging new business models.
6. A Global Repertoire Database should be created for publishing and sound recording rights to enable the online exploitation of full repertoires across the EU.