European musicians suffered a double whammy on Monday (30 October) as news broke the European Commission and a leading UK think-tank are both pushing to cut back artists' digital music copyright privileges.
Brussels will shortly suggest that authors' rights societies, known as "collecting societies," should not be able to levy fees on equipment such as computers and MP3 players as well as charging copyright fees when customers download tunes.
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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.