Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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659. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will undertake a full review of the rights of artists here, including a thorough examination of our existing copyright laws and the current Competition Act. [19823/16]

Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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The Deputy will recall that, in my previous response of 31 May 2016, I advised that the report of the Copyright Review Committee entitled “Modernising Copyright” was published in October 2013. My Department has conducted extensive analysis of the recommendations since. As advised, it is my intention, in coming weeks, to bring to Government the Department's response to the Committee’s recommendations and to seek approval for legislative proposals in relation to a number of the Committee's recommendations.

Artists who are employees in Ireland have the same rights as all other employees. In cases of self-employed artists, as with other self-employed workers, the application of competition law would only be a consideration if there are allegations of anti-competitive behaviour.