The European Commission's upcoming memo on "private copy levies" looks set to come down on the side of computer companies instead of artists, single market commissioner Charlie McCreevy signalled in a speech at a Creative Rights conference in Brussels on Wednesday (29 November) hosted by Blueprint Partners and EUobserver.
Private copy levies are a system in 20 out of 25 EU member states that see artists' "collecting societies" or trade unions skim a fee off the price of any DVD recorde...
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.