*Source: Ars Technica (
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...copying.html)*
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CISAC, the worldwide body that represents collection societies, held a two-day conference in Brussels on Thursday and Friday to tackle a thorny question: how do artists get paid in a digital world?
CISAC is the International Confederation of Authors and Composers Societies, a meta-collection society that has the distinction of having booted Russia's ROMS out of the group after ROMS isued a blanket music license to AllOfMP3.com several years ago. The various collection societies that make up CISAC patrol the globe, collecting payments from restaurants and retail stores that play music while shoppers shop and diners eat (among other things; it's quite a varied group). That money is collected and then distributed to artists—but CISAC is concerned that digital technology and file-sharing are eviscerating revenues.
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