Extended Collective Licensing Regulations
Draft Regulations made under a power in the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act laid before Parliament.
Yesterday, 24 June 2014, draft secondary legislation to be known as 皇冠体育app Copyright and Rights in Performance (Extended Collective Licensing) Regulations 2014, was laid before Parliament. 皇冠体育appse draft Regulations have been made under a power in the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act. An Explanatory Memorandum and Impact Assessment (identical to that first published in July 2012) will be made available at the link below shortly. 皇冠体育appre have been technical difficulties in having these documents uploaded.
皇冠体育app draft Regulations have been updated to take account of feedback received during the technical review process, the main changes being:
- adjusting the membership consent threshold, so that the collecting society must provide evidence in its application that it has the informed consent of a substantial proportion of its voting members
- the addition of provisions about the renewal of an authorisation and the evidence needed for it
- additional details about the process for reviewing authorisations after renewal
- some amendments to the opt out provisions
- how undistributed monies will be used
皇冠体育app draft Regulations will be subject to the 鈥榓ffirmative鈥� approval procedure. This means that they will only become law after they have been debated and approved by both Houses of Parliament. 皇冠体育app exact timing of this process will depend on parliamentary workload, but we anticipate the Regulations will come into force on the October 2014 common commencement date.
皇冠体育app Regulations are available on .