As conversations resume to try and agree a final, final draft of the European Copyright Directive, another flurry of groups representing the creative industries issued a statement yesterday urging the European Commission, European Parliament and EU Council to plough on and get the copyright reforming directive to the finish line.
Among the signatories were groups representing artists, songwriters and song right collecting societies across Europe.
Until last week the music industry had done a good job of speaking as one when campaigning for the directive, and especially for the safe harbour reforming article thirteen that aims to increase the liabilities of user-upload sites like YouTube.
Then on Thursday trade bodies repping record labels and music publishers announced they were unhappy with the direction the directive had taken in recent weeks and now wanted the whole project to be abandoned.
Posted on: 14/02/2019Categories: News from CMU Online
