Press conference on cultural diversity and the conditions for authors in the European music streaming market

Plenary session week 06 2014 in Strasbourg - Copyright and related rights and multi-territorial licensing of rights in musical works for online uses

Commissioner Michel BARNIER in charge of Internal Market and Services

Illustration for copyright. Safeguarding of European music copyright.

Press conference following the vote on collective management of music copyright.

MEPs vote on the following topics: Economic policies and multilateral budgetary surveillance; Maximum residue levels for thiacloprid; EC/Indonesia Framework Agreement on Comprehensive Partnership and Cooperation; Empowering consumers for the green transition; Dental amalgam and other mercury-added products to manufacturing, import and export restrictions; European music streaming market; Anti-corruption structures in Slovakia and its implications on the Rule of Law; Promotion of the freedom of scientific research in the EU; Implementation of the Treaty provisions on national parliaments; Implementation of the Treaty provisions on EU citizenship; European port strategy; Implementation of the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA); EU strategy on Central Asia; Security and defence implications of China's influence in the EU; Policy implications of virtual worlds; European historical consciousness; and other topics.

Voting session

David SASSOLI, EP President meets with MOGOL (Giulio RAPETTI, Italian music lyricist), President of the Italian Society of Authors and Publishers (SIAE), in the European Parliament in Brussels. Extracts from the arrival and the hanshake.

David SASSOLI, EP President meets with Giulio MOGOL, President of the Italian Society of Authors and Publishers (SIAE): arrival and handshake

This infoclip illustrates a group recording their album and PRS for MUSIC, a company which collects and pays royalties to their members when their music is used in one of a number of ways – when it is recorded onto any format and distributed to the public, performed or played in public, broadcast or made publicly available online. These shootings took place in May, June and August 2013.

Infoclip: Music licensing

Josep BORRELL, EP President, meets with David BISBAL, Spanish singer, to discuss on the extension of the copyright term of recordings in Europe.

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