Source: http://www.portfolio.com It is hard not to remember the heated debates that took place in France around the establishment of a global license to legalize downloading music on the Internet in exchange for a monthly fee. We remember the pressure of majors to derail this project (successfully) and the promotion of artists who did not want to hear about it.
Sony last week reversed its position on the topic to propose its catalogue in exchange for a monthly fee. It is the turn of Warner to come to the party, and even go a little further.
They are considering establishing a global license and propose (for a fee) access to a database containing all the music where you could draw at will.
This initiative would enable them to recover some tens of billions of dollars annually, and tp refloat their economic model which has been seriously damaged, because the cla