Select committee: Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee
Recommendation 9
Fifth Report - Creator remuneration
Published 10 Apr 2024
Paragraph 69
Addressed to Department for Culture, Media and Sport
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
We welcome the Government’s ongoing commitment to the reset of music streaming which we have advocated and note the recent metadata and transparency codes agreed by the working groups it led. The Government must now maintain this momentum in light of the finalised publications of research into “Music creators’ earnings in the digital era”, “Equitable Remuneration (ER) in the Streaming Age” and “Contract adjustment and Rights reversion”.
From: Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Fifth Report - Creator remuneration (HC 156), paragraph 69, 10 April 2024
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 1 November 2024 (deadline 10 June 2024).
Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.The government welcomes the report but sets out a largely evidence-gathering and industry-led approach, with few firm commitments to the legislative or statutory measures the Committee recommended.
- On a statutory private copying scheme, the government is "not ruling out" a private copying exception and levy, but "further evidence is needed"; the IPO will meet creative industries representatives on strengthening the evidence base.
- On AI and copyright, the government "intend[s] to proceed carefully but with a degree of urgency" and "hope[s] to announce next steps soon". It does not set the deadline for legislation that the Committee sought.
- On freelancers, it does not state a position on a Freelancers' Commissioner. A Good Work Review sub-group is "expected to discuss proposals" for one, and the five Good Work proposals are to be implemented "by March 2026".
- On music streaming, its "current view" is that dialogue and "industry-led action" are best. It is confident the Working Group's membership is adequate and will "adapt the group if it feels it is necessary".