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IMPALA welcome EC ruling on France’s music card

By | Published on Friday 15 October 2010

Pan-European indie label trade body IMPALA has welcomed a European Commission ruling approving the French government’s youth music card, which gives the kids government subsidised discounts on legit digital music stores in a bid to move them away from illegal online services.

The card has been in development for a while since it was first proposed in the previously reported French Creation & Internet report, but needed European approval because it is basically a government subsidising the record industry. The European Commission gave that approval this week.

IMPALA is a big supporter of most of the measures in the Creation & Internet report, it having been prepared by one of the trade body’s board members, Naïve’s Patrick Zelnik.

They welcomed yesterday’s EC approval for the music card, with Exec Chair Helen Smith telling CMU: “The music card is unique and demonstrates the importance of a carrot as well as stick approach. Alongside measures to guarantee market access and diversity, a European music card could be part of a new EC strategy to developing the digital market”.



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