JUNE 25: Private Copy Exemption: Rightsholders And Remuneration | London | 18.30-21.00hrs
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JUNE 25: Private Copy Exemption: Rightsholders And Remuneration | London | 18.30-21.00hrs
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Drawing a stellar panel of experts in copyright and alternative compensation systemsfrom industry and academia - Private Copy Exemption: Rightsholders And Remuneration will consider how a levy system might effectively compensate rightsholders for private copying, and takes its lead from a paper written by MA Music Business Management post-graduate, Samuel Rudy.
This free discussion paper - Private Copying of Music - nuances the debate, focusing not on whether by default, rightsholders should be compensated from lawful private copying, but addresses the issue of charging those who profit absolutely from facilitating the copying of music – digital storage and device manufacturers.
Speakers:
Samuel Rudy (Miloco Group); Jane Dyball (CEO, MCPS, IMPEL & PMLL); Chris
Cooke (editor & commentator, CMU); Martin Kretchsmer (director, CREATe &
University of Glasgow); Balázs Bodó (Senior Researcher, University of Amsterdam,
Copyright and Economics); John Smith (General Secretary, Musician’s Union).
Chair: Keith Harris - MusicTank/ PPL Director of Performer Affairs & Keith Harris Music
Ltd (Stevie Wonder); others tba.
Cost: Earlybird rates currently apply from £20
Information & booking: http://www.musictank.co.uk/events/private-copy-exemption
**SPECIAL RATE**
USE THIS PROMOTIONAL CODE: PCERR0615 (subject to availability) and save £5 on the full price - earlybird rates currently apply until 08.06.15)
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MusicTank Asks “Who Pays For The Right To Copy?”
Expert Copyright Panel To Debate A New Model For Artist Remuneration For Private Copying
Speakers confirmed incl. MPA, MCPS & IMPEL CEO Jane Dyball; CREATe Director Martin Kretschmer; Musician’s Union General Secretary John Smith and University of Amsterdam’s Balazs Bodo
London 7th May 2015: Pre-eminent music industry think tank and business information hub, MusicTank, University of Westminster today confirms speaker details for its forthcoming debate on private copy exception.
Drawing a stellar panel of experts in copyright and alternative compensation systems from industry and academia - Private Copy Exemption: Rightsholders And Remuneration will consider how a levy system might effectively compensate rightsholders for private copying, and takes its lead from a paper written by MA Music Business Management post-graduate, Samuel Rudy.
This free discussion paper - Private Copying of Music - nuances the debate, focusing not on whether by default, rightsholders should be compensated from lawful private copying, but addresses the issue of charging those who profit absolutely from facilitating the copying of music – digital storage and device manufacturers.
The mechanism, transparency and effectiveness by which rightsholders are compensated for private copying in the majority of European countries remains up for debate. The majority of EU member states operate variations of traditional blank media levies, with others (Finland and Spain) abandoning those in favour of a state-funded compensation via collecting societies.
The UK belatedly adopted EU Directive on private copy exception last October, which among other rights, grants consumers the legal right to copy CDs and DVDs on to personal computers, mobile devices and internet-based cloud locker services, for their own personal use. However, UK adoption of this regulation was done without providing ‘fair compensation’ to rights holders - itself a core remit of the EU Directive.
UK Government’s view was that any such economic harm wreaked by private copying was insignificant and ‘built in’ to the pricing of content. A large body of rightsholders firmly disagree with that position, with UK Music, BASCA and The Musicians Union appealing for rightsholder compensation in the High Court.
However structured, current compensation systems across the EU are largely considered a blunt, opaque and inefficient tool with which to compensate rightsholders.
Grasping the nettle, MusicTank is taking forward this complex aspect of rightsholder remuneration, as part of its Future Thinking series of critical thinking and informed debate.
This event considers a new model as the basis for a discussion about how a compensation system might be structured so as to compensate rightsholders in a way that is transparent and directly proportionate to the amount of music copied, freeing consumers of the burden of additional levies altogether.
Discussing the implications, practicalities and grounded realities of private copying compensation is an esteemed panel, chaired by Keith Harris (PPL Director, Performer Affairs and MusicTank Chair), comprising:
Jane Dyball, CEO, MCPS, IMPEL and PMLL - one of the UK’s most senior figures in music publishing and an expert in collective and digital rights;
Martin Kretschmer – leading copyright academic, CREATe director, advisor to the IPO and an outspoken and profoundly ‘copyleft’ advocate;
Balázs Bodó - Senior Research fellow, University of Amsterdam; an expert on alternative compensation system, copyright and economist;
John Smith - General Secretary, Musician’s Union, and leading protagonist in the recent high court appeal on private copy exception;
Chris Cooke – CMU editor and industry commentator.
Said Keith Harris, Chair of MusicTank, University of Westminster, "Compensatory systems for private copying need to be reviewed in depth in order to propose a model that does not become obsolete with the evolution of technology and this dissertation kick-starts a much-needed debate about how the industry might respond to such a requirement"
Event details
Title: Private Copy Exemption: Rightsholders And Remuneration
Date/ Time: Thu 25th June 2015 | 18.30 – 21.00 hrs
Venue: Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW
Speakers:
Samuel Rudy (Miloco Group); Jane Dyball (CEO, MCPS, IMPEL & PMLL); Chris Cooke
(editor & commentator, CMU); Martin Kretchsmer (director, CREATe & University of
Glasgow); Balázs Bodó (Senior Researcher, University of Amsterdam, Copyright and
Economics); John Smith (General Secretary, Musician’s Union).
Chair: Keith Harris - MusicTank/ PPL Director of Performer Affairs & Keith Harris Music
Ltd (Stevie Wonder); others tba.
Cost: Earlybird rates currently apply from £20 (students £15)
Information & booking: http://www.musictank.co.uk/events/private-copy-exemption
Publication details
Title: ‘Private Copying Of Music: A New Model For Artist Compensation’
Author: Samuel Rudy – Miloco Studios, London
Distribution: First published in London, March 2015 by MusicTank Publishing and freely available as a pdf download from musictank.co.uk | ISBN: 978-1-909750-07-4
About MusicTank
Established in 2003 MusicTank is a unique, neutral information hub for UK music business addressing change and innovation through informed debate, objective analysis and industry engagement. Owned and operated by University of Westminster, its content-rich website – www.musictank.co.uk – contains a wealth of industry information and resources, together with event transcripts and podcasts, news, reports and research papers. Visitors to the site can sign up to a free monthly e-mail newsletter, and for a small annual subscription become members; giving access to premium content.
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