EU Parliament wanted to be consulted

A report from the European Parliament has called on the European Commission to look again at its 2005 Recommendation on the future of online licensing in Europe, which the Parliament claims it should have been consulted on.

British Music Rights, the umbrella body representing the interests of music writers and publishers in the UK has expressed concern at the Parliament's intervention, calling the report a 'hotchpotch of conflicting provisions that will neither help nor hinder market developments in online music licensing'.

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