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has learnt that the MCPS is doing battle amongst the BPI, AOL, Apple iTunes, MusicNet, Napster, RealNetworks, Sony Connect as well as Yahoo as well as diverse mobile band operators (02, Orange, T-Mobile as well as Vodaphone) over the price of the Joint Online Licence (JOL). The BPI, the digital service providers as well as the band operators are contention that the MCPS should convey a lower per centum of the cost paid past times downloaders as well as are challenging the JOL earlier the copyright tribunal. Currently the charge per unit of measurement is 12% but the BPI as well as the other applicants would similar it reduced to 8%. The MCPS rejects this rate, proverb that authors of musical plant volition lose out as well as the parity inward vantage betwixt the online basis as well as the physical basis volition survive lost.

says that this is a tough one. He’s broadly inward favour of rewards that become (relatively) direct to the authors. The alone justification he tin encounter for reducing the royalty charge per unit of measurement is if consumers acquire cheaper downloads equally a result. Will this plow over if the price of the licence are varied he asks. What's clear though is that, considering the hit of digital service providers as well as mobile band operators involved, the outcome of the judicature volition direct maintain a profound lawsuit on the online as well as mobile band music manufacture inward the UK.