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IFPI reports that following a campaign involving over 1,300 recording artists (including Plácido Domingo, James Blunt, Francis Cabrel, The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Max Martin and Udo Lindenberg) via petitions and statements, videos and personal appearances, Sir Paul McCartney added his voice to call for the European Parliament to approve the mandate, proposed by the European Parliament Legal Affairs Committee on 20 June 2018, to begin negotiating the draft Copyright Directive with co-legislators.

On 4 July 2018, IFPI released a letter to MEPs from Sir Paul McCartney urging them to vote (on 5 July 2018) in support of their Legal Affairs Committee’s EU Copyright Directive mandate.

IFPI says that Sir Paul added his voice to thousands from across Europe’s creative sectors calling for the EU to seize the chance to restore fairness to Europe’s online music marketplace:

  • more than 2,000 recording artists calling for a solution to the Value Gap;
  • 84 major European creative sectors including record labels (majors and indies), songwriters, The International Artist Organisation, newspapers, authors, books, cinemas, book publishers, picture agencies, football leagues, commercial TV broadcasters, magazines, academics, publishers and many more asking for support on the Copyright Directive;
  • many MEPs asking for the EU to achieve the same;
  • a petition by 20,000 creators;
  • more than 100 videos from recording artists from all European nationalities urging their MEPS to support the copyright mandate.

However, MEPs rejected the negotiating mandate (see item above), meaning that the draft Copyright Directive text is now be up for debate, amendment, and a vote during the next plenary session in September.  To read IFPI’s press release in full, click here.

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