{"id":3110,"date":"2014-09-12T15:22:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T15:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/?p=3110"},"modified":"2014-09-12T15:25:57","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T15:25:57","slug":"ruth-towse-the-impact-of-digitization-on-copyright-collecting-societies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/2014\/09\/12\/ruth-towse-the-impact-of-digitization-on-copyright-collecting-societies\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Towse: The impact of digitization on copyright collecting societies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor <a title=\"Ruth Towse\" href=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/2014\/04\/30\/ruth-towse\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ruth Towse<\/a> presented the paper \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/files\/2014\/09\/European-Policy-for-IP-RT.pdf\">The impact of digitization on copyright collecting societies<\/a>\u2019 at the European Policy for IP (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.epip.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\">EPIP<\/a>) Conference 4-5 September, Brussels.<!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p>The established view of copyright collecting societies on the part of copyright economists, the courts and regulators is that their natural monopoly is justified on efficiency grounds. Besides its effects on markets for music, digitization has had a profound effect on the management of musical copyrights in terms of data requirements and the vastly increased volume of transactions: both have raised net costs of administration. Using UK data in musical performing rights, this paper asks if the argument for single national collective rights management using blanket licensing still holds up or if competition would be more efficient.<\/p>\n<p>Download the paper <a href=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/files\/2014\/09\/European-Policy-for-IP-RT.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Ruth Towse presented the paper \u2018The impact of digitization on copyright collecting societies\u2019 at the European Policy for IP (EPIP) Conference 4-5 September, Brussels. The established view of copyright collecting societies on the part of copyright economists, the courts and regulators is that their natural monopoly is justified on efficiency grounds. Besides its effects&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/2014\/09\/12\/ruth-towse-the-impact-of-digitization-on-copyright-collecting-societies\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about Ruth Towse: The impact of digitization on copyright collecting societies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":842,"featured_media":3111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-3110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative-industries-2","category-uk-eu-ip-policy","tag-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/842"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3114,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110\/revisions\/3114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}