Archive for the ‘collective rights management’ Topic
Time for a fair remuneration of artists across borders?
Published: 19 April 2012
Last Thursday Consumer Focus, along with the Norwegian consumer council and the French consumer association, joined artists and small collecting societies in the European Parliament to discuss how copyright licensing on a collective basis can benefit artists. At the ‘Towards the reform of collective rights management: Time for a fair remuneration of artists’ conference, organised by the Greens/European Free Alliance, panellists discussed how the forthcoming Directive on collective rights management could ensure fairer pay for artists whose works are licensed to radio stations, pubs, online services and the like.
