[Ecommerce] Article : Creative rights in the EU

Tue Oct 3 07:48:07 2006

The online magazine EUobserver has a feature this month focusing on
'creative rights' in the EU. <snip>EUOBSERVER / CREATIVE RIGHTS FOCUS -
With digital publishing fast-becoming a multibillion euro market in the
EU, artists, consumers, publishers and computer companies have taken off
the gloves in a fight on regulation. In this special focus, EUobserver
examines upcoming EU legislation in the sector and talks to the key
players.

Below are extracts of the various articles . They can be found at:
http://euobserver.com/focus/

Michelle

[Focus] EU on edge of big bang in digital music sales

19.09.2006 - 17:16 CET

Something shocking is happening in the EU music industry - sales of songs
downloaded from the internet are growing at over 100 percent a year. From
a blip in 2004 when Europeans downloaded just =8021 million worth of music,
a multi-billion euro market is being born and changing the landscape for
good.
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[Focus] Music piracy breaks into global EU politics

19.09.2006 - 17:16 CET

It's hard to imagine how a schoolboy in Berlin ripping a Crazy Frog tune
off the Russian website allofmp3.com could impact EU energy security, but
with 20 billion songs downloaded illegally in the world last year compared
to 420 million legally, intellectual property is becoming big politics in
both internal and foreign EU policy.
See more >

[Focus] Music composers gear up for royalty fight

19.09.2006 - 17:17 CET

Innovation and diversity in European music could be limited if Brussels
opens up the European system of collecting royalty payments to
competition, says the head of the international council of authors and
composers of music.
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[Focus] Digital market sets scene for bloody licencing battle

19.09.2006 - 17:16 CET

Explosive growth in the online music market has pushed musicians, record
labels, computer firms and EU politicians into a fight over how to manage
authors' rights on the internet, with one Hungarian MEP confident she has
found the right model for the digital era.
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[Focus] Mouskouri berates McCreevy over cultural rights

19.09.2006 - 16:19 CET

One of the worlds's best selling artists, Greek singer Nana Mouskouri, is
calling for culture to be treated differently to other products in the
European Union. "Music has soul, mind and emotion. It is not just a
product", she said in Brussels.
See more >

[Focus] Internet radicals make noise in Swedish elections

19.09.2006 - 17:17 CET

A rookie political party in Sweden, the Pirate Party, has pushed the
everyday actions of thousands of ordinary people =96 downloading music and
films from the internet =96 to the top of the political agenda.
Possibilities to form a pan-European Pirate Party and run united for the
European parliament elections in 2009 are being considered.
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[Focus] Old books only in European Digital Library

19.09.2006 - 17:17 CET

The EU wants to digitalise and online the vast volumes of cultural works
in member state libraries, but unless the issues of copyright and
intellectual property rights are solved, the European Digital Library may
consist only of books and journals published before the 1920s.
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Michelle Childs -Head of European Affairs
Consumer Project on Technology in London
24, Highbury Crescent, London, N5 1RX,UK.
Tel:+44(0)207 226 6663 ex 252.
Mob:+44(0)790 386 4642. Fax: +44(0)207 354 0607
http://www.cptech.org

Consumer Project on Technology in Washington, DC
1621 Connecticut Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20009 USA .Tel.:
+1.202.332.2670,Fax: +1.202.332.2673

Consumer Project on Technology in Geneva
1 Route des  Morillons, CP 2100, 1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland
Tel: +41 22 791 6727