Mr. James Hickey:

What we would really welcome is great advances and developments in collective bargaining. If there are two words which are repeated over and over throughout the whole copyright directive, they are “collective bargaining”. The copyright directive is there to protect authors and performers. We want to conclude collective bargaining agreements as the very best way of looking after remuneration for authors and performers. If there is a takeaway from all of this, we would love to recommend that much greater effort be put into the encouragement and incentivisation of collective bargaining. We would very much welcome that.