Source · Select Committees · Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee
Recommendation 21
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Safe harbour provisions that have been transposed into UK law have profoundly impacted the market...
Conclusion
Safe harbour provisions that have been transposed into UK law have profoundly impacted the market for digital music consumption. YouTube’s dominance of the music streaming market shows that the market has tipped. Safe harbour gives services that host user-generated content (UGC) a competitive advantage over other services and undermine the music industry’s leverage in licensing negotiations by providing UGC-hosting services with broad limitations of liability. This has suppressed the value of the digital music market both in real and absolute terms even as these services generate multi-billion-dollar advertising revenues.
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Government Response
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