[Fmpro] A new society?

[LesHurdle]

but are you in it?



 >>>>>>>EMI Music Publishing has withdrawn its Anglo-American  
repertoire from all
European authors’ societies and entrusted it to the newly created  
MCPS-PRS/GEMA
joint venture, CELAS;
⇒ Warner Chappell has withdrawn the rights to administer the  
European digital rights for
its Anglo-American catalogue from the European societies and is  
currently offering those rights for licensing to digital users to  
individual European societies on a nonexclusive
basis;
⇒ French authors’ society SACEM, Spanish authors’ society SGAE,  
and quite possibly
Italian authors’ society SIAE, are jointly creating a one-stop pan- 
European licensing
operation for online and mobile digital musical rights of the  
national repertoires of the
three societies;
⇒ In 2006, SGAE and MCPS-PRS also announced the creation of the eLOS  
joint venture
with the aim of offering digital users a joint pan-

http://www.aladda.org/docs/VG_Report_CISAC_07.pdf


http://www.musicchoice.co.uk/Newsletter.aspx?n=200707




More;
http://www.celas.eu/CelasTabs/Licensing.aspx

Wow
Jan 27, 2008 ... Websites must license in music and music videos in  
Europe largely on a per-country basis (though EMI set up its own  
CELAS collection society ...
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-youtubes-hurley-seeks-license- 
reform-will-ramp-up-rev-share/

Here's a classic
difference that CELAS intends to distribute the royalties directly to  
the right-holder (“direct. accounting”). Apart from EMI only  
Warner has drawn direct ...
http://www.ip.mpg.de/shared/data/pdf/5_alich_- 
_rights_administered_by_crmos.pdf

CELAS intends to license the mechanical rights to. EMI’s Anglo- 
American repertoire directly to such major interna-. tional providers  
as iTunes or MyCoke. ...
http://www.suisa.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/Downloads/SUISA-Annual- 
Report-06.pdf

Only EMI?  Why?   Was this a move from them in their support for  
you??????

http://www.mcps-prs-alliance.co.uk/about_us/press/latestpressreleases/ 
mcpsprsalliance/Pages/CELASmovesastepclosertofulloperations.aspx

http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=565

https://www.popkomm-participants.de/popkomm_rt/kongress/speaker.php? 
id=15555&PHPSESSID=be040caf243aa1346090d4e2bd098bdb