Innovation and diversity in European music could be limited if Brussels opens up the European system of collecting royalty payments to competition, says the head of the international council of authors and composers of music (CIAM).
The European system of bodies that collect the royalty payments from various individuals and groups for their copyright holders, such as music composers and songwriters, has been in place for more than 150 years.
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