In related news, independent music publisher Peermusic has announced it will be making a pan-European licence available to online and mobile firms via an arrangement with MCPS-PRS and Spanish collecting society SGAE.
Peermusic CEO Ralph Peer said this: "We had welcome expressions of interest [to administrate our pan-European licence] from several very competent societies. At the end of the day we decided to align our initial online licensing agreements with two of the best along cultural lines. Furthermore the [MCPS-PRS] and SGAE are among the more technologically advanced societies and are working together to provide us with a singular data protocol which will ease our administrative issues considerably".