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 move amendment No. 8:
In page 4, between lines 36 and 37, to insert the following:
“Amendment of section 280 of Principal Act
4. Section 280 of the Principal Act is amended by—
(a) the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (g) of subsection (6):
“and
(h) where the scheme is intended to include and to be operated not only on behalf of rightsowners who have authorised the applicant to manage the kind of rights intended to be covered by the scheme and that are conferred by this Act, but also on behalf of rightsowners who are unrepresented by any licensing body, information sufficient to satisfy the Controller that:
(i) the applicant is, on the basis of its mandates, sufficiently representative of rightsholders in the relevant type of works or other subject matter and of the rights which are the subject of the scheme, in the State;
(ii) all rightsholders are guaranteed equal treatment, including in relation to the terms of the licence;
(iii) rightsholders who have not authorised the applicant may at any time easily and effectively exclude their works or other subject matter from the scheme;
(iv) appropriate publicity measures have been taken, starting from a reasonable period before the works or other subject matter are to be used under the scheme, to inform rightsholders about the ability of the applicant to license works or other subject matter, about the licensing taking place under the scheme and about the options available to rightsholders as referred to in subparagraph (iii); and
(v) procedures exist for the negotiation of an equitable split of the cost and any benefit of representing rightsholders who have not authorised any licensing body to manage the rights referred to in this subsection (f) with any other licensing body which applies for registration under this section and which satisfies the conditions of subsection (f)(i) to (iv).”,
and
(b) the insertion of the following new subsection after subsection (6):
“(6A) On the registration or renewal of a registration of as a licensing body:
(a) the applicant shall not only have the right to manage the rights of the rightsowners who have authorised it to so act but shall have the right to manage the rights of unrepresented rightsowners in accordance with the scheme in so far as such rights are covered by the scheme as registered by the Controller;
(b) the Controller shall issue to the applicant a certificate of registration in such form as the Controller shall determine.”.”.

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