[Fsfe-ie] Europe seeks harmonized music royalties

[Justin Mason]

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Malcolm Tyrrell writes:
> I admit this is fairly off-topic, but I feel it may have an impact on
> music in the commons (see http://creativecommons.org) so I decided to
> post it.
> 
> It seems the EU is considering a harmonisation of the various music
> royalties collection agencies that exist across the block.
> 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/06/eu_music_royalties/
> 
> As this is going to enter a consulation state, it might be a good thing
> if some kind of brief was submitted on behalf of royalty free music (to
> avoid blanket policies that ignore its existance). Clearly, IFSO
> is not the organisation to do so.

Ross Anderson has been lobbying in the UK on this.

  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/music/index.html
  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/folkmusic.html

some other links:

  http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/001957.shtml
  http://www.beyondthecommons.com/iff2003.html

- --j.
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