UK ISP “Levy” Paper Co-Author Clarifies His Position (cont)

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Continuation of discussion with David Touve, co-author of the recent “Moving Digital Britain Forward, Without Leaving Creative Britain Behind” paper produced for PRS for Music, where he offers his thoughts about the paper and the overall need to “jumpstart (or in some cases resuscitate) the market for licensed music venues online.” The Q&A is the second of a two-part series.

Yesterday I published a Q& session I conducted with David Touve, one of the co-authors of “Moving Digital Britain Forward, Without Leaving Creative Britain Behind,” to learn a bit more of what his thoughts are, and to ask him to expand on the ideas he presented.

PRS for Music, the UK’s leading royalty collection society, is calling for “market based solutions” to solve the problem of online copyright infringement, and the paper outlined two different possible approaches to solve the problem: a “negative spillover” approach that would assess a fine that “would rise and fall based on the level of piracy on an ISP’s network,” or a “positive spillover” approach that would require ISPs to pay a fee to obtain a blanket license that would allow them to transmit copyrighted material on their networks.

I’d like to remind readers that David Touve does not work for PRS for Music nor does he speak on their behalf. The back and forth series of questions that follow is merely among two people.

With this in mind here is the second half of our discussion.

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UK ISP “Levy” Paper Co-Author Clarifies His Position