26 May 2009 0 Comments

EU still working on Cross EU Music Licensing

From Yahoo News:

EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said regulators’ talks with the music industry mean that French collecting society SACEM and record label EMI were now willing to license their music to rights managers across Europe.

Apple has also said that it would offer music tracks to all European customers if it was able to license EU-wide rights

It would be great if they could get this sorted. It is very frustrating when one country gets things and others don’t considering one of the fundamental founding principles of the EU is cross border free trade. They need to work out a similar deal for TV Shows and Movies too.
[Read by : Yahoo! Tech]

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