By Emmanuel Legrand The Copyright Royalty Board in the US has issued its written determination of royalty rates for webcasting royalties for 2021-2025, as part of...
The British government has launched a consultation on the UK's future regime for the exhaustion of intellectual property rights "which will underpin the UK's system of...
The Authors’ Group – which includes European Composer and Songwriter Alliance (ECSA), European Writers’ Council (EWC), Federation of European Film and TV Directors (FERA) and Federation...
Canadian artists and songwriters have joined forces to ask their government to amend the country's copyright law to make room for a provision granting them ownership...
The US House of Representatives has warned Spotify that its scheme known as "Discovery Mode" could raise "significant policy issues." Discovery Mode lets artists and record...
The European Commission has published its guidance on Article 17 of the new Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, which provides for new rules...
The French creative sector is facing the prospect of losing a significant source of revenues from private copying if a new legislation, currently discussed in Parliament,...
The UK's Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) has disclosed that it was investigating the recent sale to Sony Music Entertainment by Kobalt of its independent distribution...
By Emmanuel Legrand Germany's Bunsdestag has voted the proposed law transposing the Copyright Directive into German legislation. The May 20 vote followed last minutes attempts by...
By Emmanuel Legrand The French government's Council of Ministers has adopted the ordinance transposing Article 2/6 and Articles 17 to 23 of the Directive on Copyright...
