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13th December 2018

Rightsholders unite in calling for an effective solution to the Value Gap

As the European Commission, Parliament and Council meet in Strasbourg to negotiate the Copyright Directive, a broad coalition of rightsholders have called for them to remember the original objective of the legislation, which is to correct the distortion of the digital marketplace caused by User Upload Content (UUC) services.

The Value Gap is the mismatch between the value that some user upload services extract from creative content and the revenue returned to the creators.

For the full letter see here.

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