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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8014
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/united states/wto

United States to compensate for loss of copyrights due to "business exemption"

Brussels, 25/07/2001 (Agence Europe) - The Union and the United States have reached a procedural agreement on the handling of compensations in the framework of their dispute regarding the American copyright legislation, regarded as illegal by the World Trade Organisation. "Instead of adopting a confrontational approach, we have started a constructive dialogue with a view to compensating European musicians until such time as the US Copyright Act is amended", Commissioner Pascal Lamy was...

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