Another publisher is going to offer a pan-European system for licensing its catalogue for digital or mobile uses. Following on from EMI's announcement that it is launching such a system, now Warner/Chappell is reportedly developing a similar service, though they are likely to enable all royalty collecting societies to offer pan-European licences on their behalf (the EMI system is only available via the UK's MCPS-PRS or Germany's GEMA). Billboard report that Warner/Chappell chiefs met with all the collecting societies at MIDEM yesterday providing details of how societies will be able to offer the continent wide licences, seemingly offering a more flexible system than that previously proposed by the major.
Jan 24, 2007
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Warner/Chappell to offer pan-European licence too
Warner/Chappell is reportedly developing a pan-European licensing system for digital and mobile uses, following EMI's similar announcement, and has met collecting societies at MIDEM.