Source · Select Committees · Culture, Media and Sport Committee
Recommendation 21
21
Acknowledged
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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.
Government response summary AI-generated
The Government acknowledges that rightsholders should be properly remunerated and recognizes the difficulties faced, but states that licensing negotiations are private commercial matters and it has no intention of implementing the Copyright Directive. It notes the IPO has identified improvements to access to justice guidance and will consider KYBC obligations in an upcoming IP Crime Strategy.
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Government Response
The government responded to this report on 22 September 2021. No passage in that response could be matched to this conclusion. Read the response document ↗