BRITISH LICENSING SOCIETY CHECKS LEGALITY OF ITS PRACTICES AFTER LANDMARK RULING
July 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN'S Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) has contacted the European Commission to establish whether its agreements with other collecting societies in Europe are legal, after a landmark European Commission ruling.
Following an anti-trust inquiry into music collecting societies, Brussels has ordered that these national organisations stop preventing rights holders from registering with another country's collecting society. And it has ruled that bilateral agreements between societies preventing them offering music licences outside ...
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