The Government launched the Hargreaves review into Intellectual Property last year and the final report made 10 recommendations for reform. The most important of these concerned the creation of the Digital Copyright Exchange for which, in itself, there was a separate review. The Digital Copyright Exchange Feasibility Study is being run by Richard Hooper and you can read his 0 Comments » | Post a comment »

At present in the United Arab Emirates there are no rights organisations or royalties paid out to artists, writers etc meaning that, as an example, Westlife's April performance at Jebel Ali Golf Resort in Dubai was not licensed therefore no licence fees were collected for the public performance of their big hits including Billy Joels’ ‘Uptown Girl’ and Steve Mac and Wayne Hector’s ‘Flying