Thursday, November 02, 2006

European Union and artist's digital rights

Interesting article from BusinessWeek online.

EU to Roll Back Artists' Digital Rights?

by Andrew Rettman
EU to Roll Back Artists' Digital Rights? A dispute hinges on whether "collecting societies" should levy fees on computers and MP3 players, plus receive payments for downloads

European musicians suffered a double whammy on Monday (30 October) as news broke the European Commission and a leading UK think-tank are both pushing to cut back artists' digital music copyright privileges.

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