“Anyone interested in offering paid-for downloads currently has to deal with 16 different licensing bodies in the EU. […] Proposals for an EU-wide licensing system for online music were first put forward by the European Commission, the EU’s executive body. The Commission has threatened to sue the music industry on competition grounds if national bodies did not change the way they enforced online copyright restrictions. […] Now the Dutch music copyright agency BUMA, and the Belgian agency SABAM, have said that they will not enforce the so-called “economic residency” clause in the case of online music.”
"EU online music deal closer"
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