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Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: That is okay.

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendment No. a1: In page 3, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: "Amendment of section 38 of Principal Act 2. Section 38 of the Principal Act is amended in subsection (1)(b)(i) by the insertion of "single" after "agrees to make".". The reason these amendments were not on the original list is because, thankfully, the delay in the committee dealing with the Bill...

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Should I deal with them one by one or as a group?

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Amendment No. b1 is simple enough. It proposes to amend section 38(1)(b)(i) of the principal Act to insert "each" after "in respect of". Its purpose is to back up what I have been saying. It is straightforward and simple. It will change the wording to "agrees to make payments in respect of each such playing or inclusion in a broadcast or a cable programme service". There should be no...

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am here for a while; I can speak for longer if needs be.

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I was hoping the Minister of State would be able to indicate that we would look again at this whole section in a way that was not setting in stone some of the problems that have been identified and which, in fact, will continue in a slightly different way the approach that has been taken thus far in terms of the power imbalance between producers and the performers or artists. The directive...

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Have we not moved on to that yet?

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: That is even better. We are going back to the other one so. It is a pity we are where we are, but it is good that the Minister of State has agreed that there will be a meeting with RAAP. That just points to part of what I said earlier. It is a pity that the committee in its wisdom, or lack of wisdom, decided to waive pre-legislative scrutiny way back, although it was not this committee...

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is good. It is a rolling agenda item. I am on the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly and it is one of the issues I have asked to be included on the agenda of one of its subcommittees, namely to look at ensuring payment everybody equitably in relation to AI, which is one the new revolutions we can all benefit from it. We do at the moment. Everybody switches on their Google Maps. That...

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendment No. b1: In page 3, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 38 of Principal Act 2. Section 38 of the Principal Act is amended in subsection (1)(b)(i) by the insertion of “each” after “in respect of”.”.

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendment No. c1: In page 3, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 38 of Principal Act 2. Section 38 of the Principal Act is amended in subsection (1)(b)(i) by the insertion of the following “for the purpose of remunerating jointly the qualifying copyright owner in the sound recording and performers whose qualifying performances are...

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendment No. d1: In page 3, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: "Amendment of section 38 of Principal Act 2. Section 38 of the Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following subsection (3A) after subsection (3): "(3A) (a) Payments made to a licensing body pursuant to subsections (1) and (2) of this section shall be known for the purpose of this...

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendment No. e1: In page 3, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: "Amendment of section 208 of Principal Act 2. Section 208 of the Principal Act is amended by the substitution of the following subsections for subsections (1) to (9): “(1) A performer has the right to share equally with the copyright owner in the sound recording the equitable...

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I thank the Minister of State for her answers, some of which reflect answers I received in response to parliamentary questions in preparation for this Bill. I will come back to them. In the proposed legislation, the term “reasonable collecting costs” is used. That is not defined. The general scheme of the Bill used the term “justifiable collecting costs”. The...

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I thank the Minister of State. In some ways, that is the luxury of pre-legislative scrutiny, where a Minister proposes something and we go through the heads of the Bill and we agree or do not agree with what is proposed. We can tinker with the Bill before the wording is decided. The problem now is that unless the wording in a Bill setting out a measure is changed, it becomes an Act. The...

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Yes. Those amendments were my initial way of dealing with it and trying to get my head around it. I was helped by others.

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I can push them if you want, Chair. They are preferable to what is there at the moment, but they do not capture in full what we would like to do.

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendment No. 1: In page 3, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 208 of Principal Act 2. Section 208 of the Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (3): “(3A) Equitable remuneration less reasonable collecting costs shall be shared equally as between a performer and an owner of the...