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SABAM calls on Belgian government to lift restrictions on the allocation of compensation funds to authors

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Belgian rights society SABAM has warned that due to legal restrictions, it has not been able to distribute up to 50% of the compensation funds it received from the government to help authors weather the Covid crisis.

SABAM said that out of the €16 million it received from the government in July 2021 to compensate authors and composers for their loss of revenues, it has so far only been able to compensate 20% of its members (3,679), for a total amount of €8.7m. According to SABAM, this repres...

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Singapore regulators seek comments on the draft Copyright Regulations 2023 on collective management organisations

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November 26, 2022

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Interested parties have until December 4, 2022 to provide comments on the draft Copyright (Collective Management Organisations) Regulations 2023, in a consultation organised by the Ministry of Law of Singapore (MinLAw) and the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS).

The draft Regulations set out the licence conditions which collective management organisations (CMOs) must comply with under a mandatory class licencing scheme administered by IPOS, as well as procedural matters relatin...

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Roxanne de Bastion and David Lee elected as Performer Directors of British neighbouring rights society PPL

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November 24, 2022

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British singer and songwriter Roxanne de Bastion (pictured, above) has been re-elected as a Performer Director and horn player David Lee was elected as a Performer Director of PPL, during the UK's neighbouring rights society's Annual Performer Meeting (APM)

Music manager David Stopps steps down as a Performer Director after six years. Peter Lale was also staing for election. de Bastion and Lee will sit alongside PPL’s four other Performer Directors: Jackie Davidson, Hannah Joseph, Peter Thom...

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SCAPR and WIPO sign agreement providing WIPO Connect users access to IPNs

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November 22, 2022

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SCAPR, the organisation representing societies collecting neighbouring rights on behalf of performers, has signed an agreement with the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) that allows non-SCAPR collective management organisations (CMOs) to use WIPO Connect to enrich their databases with existing international performance numbers (IPNs) from SCAPR's IPD database.

WIPO Connect, is a data management system developed and offered by WIPO, aimed at facilitating the collective manageme...

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