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What about multi-territory taxation?
A recent article in El Pais (in English here) was titled « 7 internet giants only pay Spain 1 million in taxes ».
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Spotify publishes royalty per click rate. And VOD platforms?
You may have followed the recent debate about Spotify payout rates (if not see here, here and here) following Thom Yorke’s initial criticism of the rates. After weeks of defending themselves and underlining how much it has paid out to rightholders, at the beginning of December Spotify updated their service and opened themselves up to some transparency (see articles here and here) on both statistics and royalties. This notably included putting an approximate value on the per stream royalty rate – somewhere between 0.006$ and 0.0084$.
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Licences for Europe: Backstage
Now that the dust has settled from last week’s Licences for Europe plenary, I thought I would share some thoughts about the process and outcomes here.
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Phasing out copying?
The legal affairs committee exchanged views on the draft report by Mrs Castex MEP on the issue of private copying levies on 14 October 2013.
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Making Private Copying Work for a Digital Europe
On 18th September 2013 the European Parliament’s legal affairs committee held a hearing on private copying levies. The hearing saw authors, performers, film producers, consumers and manufacturers present their visions of the system for MEPs to take into account as they prepare a report on the issue.
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Private copying – European court confirms compensation again!
A major blow to device manufacturers and importers who just don’t want to be involved in the compensation of creators.Private copying seems to be taking up quite a bit of the European Court of Justice’s time just lately.
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Let’s get Europe’s audiovisual works out
And by out, we mean out there, being watched.
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Asking the Trillion Euro Question
In every copyright debate in Brussels everyone always agrees that legislation needs to be fair and balanced, and that creators should be paid.
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To negotiate or not to negotiate
Last week the European Parliament made a very strong statement.
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Hearing both (or more) sides of a tale
Janine Lorente, the chair of SAA’s board of directors, spoke at the European Parliament’s legal affairs committee hearing on collective rights management on Monday. She was one of 13 stakeholders in a detailed programme which showed just how many different stakeholders will be affected by the directive when it comes into force. Out of the 13 presentations, only Janine looked at the issue from a non-music point of view.
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Creators’ contracts don’t work but let’s rely on them anyway
SAA has been promoting the idea of an unwaivable remuneration right for the last two years. Performers organisations have also called for a similar right. Our analysis, put simply, is that while it would obviously be better to strengthen the negotiating position of screenwriters and directors by introducing standard contracts or changing contract law, the reality is that this is unlikely to happen at EU level. Antonio Vitorino recognised this issue in his recommendations on private copying levies:“I was, however, also made aware of the fact that authors and performers often transfer their exclusive rights in a work or other protected subject matter to the producer or the publisher.
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Licences for Europe - Trying to nip it in the bud?
So, Licensing Europe is up and running and already being criticised by those who want copyright reform.
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