1 Amendments of Krišjānis KARIŅŠ related to 2012/0180(COD)
Amendment 34 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) There are significant differences in the national rules governing the functioning of collecting societies, in particular as regards their transparency and accountability towards their members and rightholders, which makes for fragmentation of the internal market in this sector. Beyond the difficulties non-domestic rightholders face when exercising their rights and the too often poor financial management of the revenues collected, problems with the functioning of collecting societies lead to inefficiencies in the exploitation of copyright and related rights across the internal market to the detriment of the members of collecting societies, rightholders and users alike, for whom it is too complicated to assert their rights in other Member States. These difficulties do not arise in the functioning of independent rights management service providers who act as agents for rightholders for the management of their rights on a commercial basis and in which rightholders do not exercise membership rights.