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Copyright levy forum to focus on grey market

15 September 2008

Eklavya Gupte, London

The issue of free-riders and the menace of the grey market will be the focus of the first meeting of the copyright levy forum when it meets on Wednesday this week

Fifteen representatives from the digital industry, collecting societies and a consumer rights group will have a series for meetings starting this month and running until April next year.

The first meeting is scheduled for September 17 and will look at how companies that succeed in not paying the levy (free-riders) and the grey market can be tackled.

It will examine the practicalities of collecting a levy on goods exported between countries as the...



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