The EU sees the problem as: national monopolies creating the phenomenon of ‘geoblocking’, and the answer as: competition between collective rights organisations. It requires CMOs to compete with each other for members (the right holders they represent) and to become transparent in the way they operate.īut, academic experts have deduced that this will not work, and indeed may make the situation worse for music lovers. It is doing so by bringing competition to the business of collective rights management through the EU’s Directive on CMOs (Collective Management Organizations) due to be implemented in April 2016. In an attempt to shake up the copyright regime in Europe and to allow Europeans to access their online services wherever they go, the EU is now reforming the system by which music rights are licensed. This results from the way music rights are licensed or sold as per territories. If you have a premium account from UK, you can listen only to that music which has been licensed in the UK, even if you are physically in France. If you have a free Spotify account in the UK, you cannot use it in France for more than 14 days.
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