Some of Europe's biggest media groups and telecom companies have asked the European Commission to reject an offer from most of the EU's national royalty-collecting societies to settle an anti-trust case.
In a letter to commission president Jose Manuel Barroso and EU anti-trust commissioner Neelie Kroes, the 27 companies – such as RTL, Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom – warn that their businesses and the bloc's "cultural diversity" will suffer if Brussels accepts the deal.
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