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EU seeks pan-European license for online music use
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission will push for measures to establish a pan-European copyright license for online music use by October to allow EU industry to compete better with the United States, it said on Thursday.
Right now there are 25 different licensing bodies in the 25-nation European Union and anyone who wants to open an online store for music faces the trouble and expense of approaching the royalty collector in each member state.
"The absence of pan-European copyright licenses makes it difficult for new European-based online services to take off," Internal Market and Services Commissioner Charlie McCreevy said in a statement.
"This is why we are proposing the creation of Europe-wide copyrights clearance."
Tilman Lueder, head of the copyright unit at the Commission's internal market services, said the EU executive was now consulting interested parties about the initiative, which could result in legislation or a set of recommendations.
"We hope that something can be adopted in October," he told a news briefing.
Lueder said the direct cost of negotiating a single license is currently 9,500 euros in Europe.
U.S. online music revenue in 2004 came in at 207 million euros ($249 million) compared to 27.2 million euros in Europe, he said. Forecasts for 2005 put the U.S. figure at nearly 500 million euros compared to Europe's 106.4 million.
"The gap is very wide. We need to do something about this," he said. "We don't make any money from the Internet in Europe."
EU seeks pan-European license for online music use
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission will push for measures to establish a pan-European copyright license for online music use by October to allow EU industry to compete better with the United States, it said on Thursday.
Right now there are 25 different licensing bodies in the 25-nation European Union and anyone who wants to open an online store for music faces the trouble and expense of approaching the royalty collector in each member state.
"The absence of pan-European copyright licenses makes it difficult for new European-based online services to take off," Internal Market and Services Commissioner Charlie McCreevy said in a statement.
"This is why we are proposing the creation of Europe-wide copyrights clearance."
Tilman Lueder, head of the copyright unit at the Commission's internal market services, said the EU executive was now consulting interested parties about the initiative, which could result in legislation or a set of recommendations.
"We hope that something can be adopted in October," he told a news briefing.
Lueder said the direct cost of negotiating a single license is currently 9,500 euros in Europe.
U.S. online music revenue in 2004 came in at 207 million euros ($249 million) compared to 27.2 million euros in Europe, he said. Forecasts for 2005 put the U.S. figure at nearly 500 million euros compared to Europe's 106.4 million.
"The gap is very wide. We need to do something about this," he said. "We don't make any money from the Internet in Europe."
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