EU court decision heralds multi-country European music licenses

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Europe's music royalties societies must now allow artists to sign up to a society of their choice and make multi-country licenses available to the likes of Amazon and Apple after a court backed an EU veto on national monopolies. On Friday Europe's General Court, its second highest, upheld a 2008 ruling by the European Commission. Under the current system, each European country has its own collecting society, such as PRS in the United Kingdom and SIAE in Italy, which deal only with songwriters and performers in their own country. ...



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