Simplify the management, EU cleared obstacles in the development of online music

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According to foreign media reports, the EU authorities ordered music copyright organizations change the system which make online music store difficult to buy the traditional European music copyright, so as to remove a major obstacle for the popularity of iTunes in Europe.

Europe's online music download cause behind the United States, thus the recording industry can not make up for declining CD sales business loss.

Backward in Europe in part because each country were required to sell music copyright, which makes Apple's iTunes Music Store can not create such a service can be a single store in Europe. Instead, Apple's iTunes to all EU member states to request copyright permission, so in those countries were selling music.

The European Commission requested music copyright organizations (also known as collective copyright management association) and about to give up the traditional system, the system only allows artists to their host institutions that copyright fees.

EU shows that the new changes will also help some countries have the Internet, cable and satellite broadcasting licence of Europe, these countries only need to choose a collective copyright management organizations.