Select committee: Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee
Recommendation 3
Fifth Report - Economics of music streaming: follow-up
Published 13 Jan 2023
Paragraph 16
Addressed to Department for Culture, Media and Sport
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
The current approach to cultural policymaking by Government is too scatter-gun to be effective, particular in comparison to other successful countries with whom we are competing for market share. We recommend that the Government take a more strategic approach to policymaking regarding cultural production and the creative industries. Responsibilities are dispersed across too many departments, which has created persistent issues, including in international trade, visas and the ongoing skills shortage. This could be addressed by DCMS more regularly setting the overall direction by publishing its overall strategy (with reference to specific disciplines, including music, film and television, theatre, etc), with tangible, measurable outcomes, at more regular intervals, that the work of various departments and arm’s length bodies can then work in concert to implement. We also recommend that part of this work should revisit Creative Industries Forums with other markets, including South Korea, and ensure these lead to tangible outcomes that re-energise the commercial collaboration with our most important overseas partners.
From: Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Fifth Report - Economics of music streaming: follow-up (HC 874), paragraph 16, 13 January 2023
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 27 March 2023 (deadline 13 March 2023).
Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.The government sets out progress on transparency, metadata and research into copyright changes, says it is considering performers' rights and remuneration, and will publish a Sector Vision for the creative industries "in the coming months".
- On working group transparency, the government says it "will also soon publish agendas and minutes" for the transparency working group, and agendas for the metadata working group, as no minutes were taken for those meetings.
- It says the draft metadata agreement has been shared with industry, and that once the outputs are "finalised among industry" the Government "will publish them".
- On remuneration and performer rights, the government "is considering its approach" and "will take a decision on these matters in due course", having deferred detailed conversations while research was ongoing.
- On a more strategic approach to creative industries policy, it "recognises the importance" of this and says the Sector Vision, developed with all relevant departments, will set out a "living policy framework".