Goodsounds;673755 Wrote: > As I understand it, one of the obstacles is the fragmentation of rights > administration, it's country by country. No centralized way to "get > European rights", so the effort is directed to where the most ears are > available for the least effort and cost.
It's not just the fragmentation of administration but more importantly also of legislation. In Germany, for example, you have Gema as a centralized institution to manage author's claims and which claims prices that are around 5 times what services like Spotify pay to artists - and that's on top of what artists get. Then in Germany, especially France but probably some other countries, too, you have "local content" rules that demand that a certain percentage of your catalog or of what you are actually streaming is from rights holders out of these countries which are ridiculously high, and so on.... -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote and *New: iPeng for iPad*, at penguinlovesmusic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90703 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
