Yesterday's roundtable announced concrete steps that should result in improved access to music online. The commitments included:

o pursuing new EU licensing platforms comprising the repertoires of several collecting societies. These platforms should consolidate the widest possible repertoire in their catalogues and should be based on voluntary cooperation among right owners.

o that collective rights managers should adhere to certain objective, transparent and non-discriminatory criteria to allow other entities to deliver multi-territorial licences.

o set up a working group to ...