PUBLISHERS WELCOME MORE TRANSPARENCY PROPOSED BY BRUSSELS ON THE COLLECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT
November 1st, 2012
BY CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS
A PROPOSED European Union (EU) directive should deliver more transparency and better governance for collective management of copyright and related rights on behalf of publishers and authors, a Brussels conference has been told.
The European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers are now debating this tabled law on on collective management of copyright and related rights. It sets rules regarding the financial management of this kind of societies, saying that income collected following the exploitation of the members' rights should ...
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.