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Younison talks to 4 EU Commissioners on behalf of authors.
Posted by Kelvin on Aug 12, 2010 at 10:53
As a result of our work this year, with growing numbers of artists signing up to the Younison charter demanding transparency and accountability vis-a-vis their collecting society, we have been invited to talk with the cabinet of 4 EU commissioners, who are currently preparing the draft law on copyright as well as reformatting the way collecting societies will be operating over the EU territory.
The main problem for the Commission is that - as it is now - there is no European market when it comes to copyright and the licensing of music because the collecting societies still divide the territory into national areas.
This prerogative makes that instead of 1 there are 16 iTunes stores in Europe and that catalogues of artist A can not purchased in store B.
It also upholds the opaque and slow way of working the collecting societies have become accustomed to.
That this is not a healthy environment to foster a vibrant pan European creative zone has led to the decision to reform it on EU level.
However, for this reform to be a succes , it needs to address the many issues that live among artists.
As a result of our survey conducted last year, we have distilled a set of 6 suggestions we want the Commission to include on behalf of the authors .
For the European directive to be a step forward for artists it needs to adress to the following issues:
1. Timely information disclosure.
2. Timely payments for all digital revenues.
3. Harmonized Transparency and Accountability requirements for all forms of digital exploitation.
4. Multi-territorial Licensing is about transparency and service competition.
5. Artists shall be free to choose their collecting society depending on which rights (and best service) they wish a given collecting society to represent them.
6. The Global Repertoire Database initiative .
The way we suggest this should be done is included in the document open to view here and this will be the stand we take towards the European policymakers when we discuss these issues in the coming weeks.
Feel free to check out the document and to give us feedback or other suggestions that could help you as an artist in becoming a more independant and creative author.
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