Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Report and Final Stages
Dail Éireann — 2026-01-21
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Aengus Ó Snodaigh (SF), Dublin South-Central

I am disappointed that the Minister of State has not seen the need to adopt these amendments, which are clarifying a situation that she says does not need to be clarified because it is already in law. Obviously, it is not in law and it is not clear if two different organisations with their legal teams had a look at this. My own legal advisers had a look at this and they all said that, to avoid doubt in any way, these amendments were required. Separate to that, they are required to ensure that there is no undermining of the position of the collective management organisations on both sides. RAAP would be one in this case or Phonographic Performance Ireland, PPI, would be the one on the producers side. It is to make sure that there is no doubt as to their role and their ability to collect revenues. Most of these amendments are tied together in some ways to make sure there is fair and equitable distribution of that based on what was fully intended in the EU directive. Avoiding doubt would ensure that we are not back here again in the future with other legislation to plug a hole that we have identified here and that we can take the opportunity to address it now rather than wait until another judgment in the future finds that we are still in breach of the directive.

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Sitting date: 2026-01-21