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"Madam President, Commissioner, I am joining my colleagues to call for the issue of collective management societies to be dealt with quickly. I agree with the proposals you have just made regarding the harmonisation of horizontal rules on transparency and regarding the rules on online music.
However, I must insist on the aim of fair remuneration for artists. Since the start of the mandate, for several years even, the issue of remuneration for artists has been mentioned exclusively in the context of infringements to intellectual property rights, making Internet users the scapegoats for artists’ lack of earnings. Yet, we are forgetting that, for each CD, for example, authors and performers only receive, on average, 6% of the sales price and that, for websites that sell music online, they receive hardly anything, around 1% per sale.
Fair remuneration for artists must therefore be at the heart of our revision of collective management for the digital era. Of course, we need more transparency. In France, the Standing Monitoring Committee for management societies and distribution of rights published a damning report last year on the remuneration of the managers of these societies, for example. This committee also denounced a wave of invoices and deductions for costs.
Artists must be at the heart of our concerns and many voices from all of the political camps together are denouncing a system which, in the end, places more importance on intermediaries than artists — that is what Neelie Kroes said — or even an opaque, confiscatory system as the French Minister of Culture has branded it.
Commissioner, I therefore think that, if we revise these collective management rights, our objective and our end goal must be the optimal perception of intellectual property rights. These are conditions which are not merely incidental in the fight against infringements to intellectual property rights but which represent an essential prerequisite to the respect of these rights by users."@en1
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