Eighth Special Report - Economics of music streaming: follow-up: Government Response to the Committee’s Fifth Report

This is the government's response, published 27 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".

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