The leading UK trade bodies for music artists and managers have responded positively to recommendations made in Richard Hooper's new report on streamlining copyright - but warned that its 'momentum' cannot be allowed to slow.

As reported earlier, Hooper's Copyright Works set our recommendations for a new Digital Copyright Exchange, where potential licensees could obtain music rights online in a single transaction.

Hooper recommends that a new industry-funded Copyright steering committee be set up to create and implement this 'copyright ...