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EUobserver: [Focus] EU artists take hit in digital rights battle
Brussels will shortly suggest that authors’ rights societies, known as ”collecting societies,” should not be able to levy fees on equipment such as computers and MP3 players as well as charging copyright fees when customers download tunes.
”No obligation for further payment in another form may arise in relation to the private copying by the consumer,” Brussels’ 13-page draft legal ”recommendation” due out in November but seen by Blooomberg, states.
It adds that EU member countries must ”ensure” any copy fees ”take into account” new digital rights management (DRM) technology – which limits the number of copies private users can make – with fees on some types of small-scale copying activity to be made illegal.
Låter som ett fall framåt, i alla fall. Kassettskatt är en av de mer besynnerliga påfunden på området, alldeles oavsett vad man tänkt fylla kassetterna/skivorna med så ska en ersättning till olika rättighetsorganisationer betalas. Här är den ursprungliga artikeln hos Bloomberg. EUobserver skriver också om en rapport från IPPR om ”intellektuella äganderätter” som går att köpa här, med tillhörande pressmeddelande.
