Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage
Seanad Éireann — 2026-02-24
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Michael McDowell (IND), National University of Ireland

I move amendment No. 1:
“Amendment of section 38 of Principal Act
2. Section 38 of the Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (3):
“(3A) Payments made to a licensing body pursuant to subsections (1) and (2) of this section shall be known for the purpose of this section and section 208 as ‘equitable remuneration’. The right to receive the same is a right which is shared between the owner of the sound recording and performers whose performances are incorporated in the sound recording.”.”.
This amendment proposes to amend section 38 of the principal Act, which is the Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000. I will indicate to the House what this is intended to do. This simple amendment clarifies the nature of the right as a shared right in a single payment. Apart from its value in that regard, it is also necessary to insert it to help to fix a problem that arises in section 2(a) of the Bill, which proposes to insert a new section 208(3A) into the principal Act. This will be made clear in the next amendment.

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