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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2007-735/division-2",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2007/735",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 4 October 2006 relating to a proceeding pursuant to Article 81 of the EC Treaty and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case COMP/C2/38.681 — The Cannes Extension Agreement) (notified under document number C(2006) 4350) (Only the English, French and German texts are authentic) (Text with EEA relevance) (2007/735/EC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2007-735",
  "path": "division/2",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "(2)",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The subject matter of the procedure was the Cannes Extension Agreement, an agreement among the 18 companies (13 of which are copyright collecting societies managing mechanical copyright in music and five major music publishers, members of these collecting societies) concerning the relations between them in the management of mechanical copyright of music licensed to record companies for the reproduction of sound recordings on physical carriers. In its preliminary assessment, the Commission expressed concerns under Article 81 of the EC Treaty and 53 of the EEA Agreement about two clauses of the Cannes Extension Agreement. The first was a clause that provided that before granting a rebate to a record company in the context of a Central Licensing Agreement, a collecting society needed the written consent of ‘the relevant member’. The second was a clause that provided that collecting societies may never enter either the music publishing or the record production markets. The Commission’s competition concerns were that the first clause could have the effect of making it very difficult or even impossible for collecting societies to grant rebates to record companies and that the second clause could prevent potential competition by collecting societies in the music publishing and record production markets.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2007/735/division/2",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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