UK music biz wants cut of iPod cash

The UK music industry has called for Apple and other portable device makers to had over a slice of their revenues as compensation for fair use copying.

The Music Business Group (MBG), which numbers record company trade groups and rights collecting organisations among its members, backs proposals for change in UK copyright law that would provide legal backing for private copying of music to computers and portable players, so-called format shifting.

But it believes that rights holders should be compensated by a voluntary licensing scheme.

“The proposal we have put forward through the Music Business Group would see format-shifting copying (i.e. “CDs to iPods”) brought within the law,” MBG spokesman Richard Mollet explained in an email.

Source: PC Pro

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