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Younison approaches Senators with demands for change

Posted by Kelvin on Nov 27, 2009 at 15:13

Younison has actively been approaching several Belgian Senators with the proposal for three changes on the current law on the control of the Collecting societes.

The proposed changes to the law are:

1. The current law foresees a period of 24 months in which the collecting societies can pay back collected revenue . We urge that a difference is made between the distribution of digital income and other income concerning the time in which these moneys are redistributed to the artists, for digital revenue should be distributed much faster than other income.

2.There is an important need of direct information from the online sales towards the collecting societies that should be shared with the authors as a control mechanism towards the record companies.This is not included in the current law

3. All collected digital revenue should embrace the same transparency standards.With the current law, Auvibel and Reprobel, collecting in your name are not obliged to do so and will not .

Send us your opinions and so we can incorporate them into our ongoing initiative to build a more transparent and rewarding musical landscape.

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3 replies added

blommethomas

On 2009-12-1 at 17:29 blommethomas said:

There are 2 things I consider should be added to this charter:

1) ability for artists to gather their artist rights themselves as an extra cost in the contract. The artists informs artist rights organsiations that it will collect the rights themselves so that the organiser doesn't get a fine.

2)remove the dj license: plain and simple, asit is not the right way to make people pay for tunes.

Kelvin

On 2009-12-10 at 16:58 Kelvin said:

Thanks Thomas for this input, we will note your remarks

blommethomas

On 2009-12-10 at 19:44 blommethomas said:

Thanks, keep me posted!

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