European Music Copyright Round-Up

brings yous 2 European musical copyright stories:

* Businessweek reports that inwards France, Johnny Hallyday has lost an appeal to recover his mastertapes from Universal, his onetime tape label. Hallyday remains nether contract to the label, in addition to must nonetheless create a tape for them, fifty-fifty though he attempted to intermission off the contract inwards 2004. Once the contract has ended, Hallyday’s novel label volition hold out able to create greatest hits compilations, merely volition nonetheless select to pay royalties to Universal.

Johnny Hallyday, nonetheless shackled to Universal?

*Australian IP reports that the Irish Gaelic Recorded Music Association (IRMA) is planning to select infringement actions against a release of series P2P file-sharers.

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