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Spain: CNC re-opens music concert case after former regulator dismissed complaints

By  |  April 25, 2013

Spain’s competition regulator, the CNC, has initiated formal proceedings against an authors’ and editors’ association, the SGAE, after complaints that the association acted anti-competitively in its handlings of intellectual property rights for music performances. According to a press release from the CNC, initial complaints were dismissed by the now-defunct Competition Service in 2006; the decision was appealed, however, and has now risen again with the CNC, whose Investigations Division has ruled that there is sufficient evidence against the association. Specifically, the association is suspected of forcing music promoters into contracts to obtain licenses that allow the association to publically broadcast intellectual property of the musicians’ works.

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