Source: http://www.portfolio.com It is hard not to remember the heated debates that took place in France around the establishment of a global license to legalize downloading music on the Internet in exchange for a monthly fee. We remember the pressure of majors to derail this project (successfully) and the promotion of artists who did not want to hear about it. Sony last week reversed its position on the topic to propose its catalogue in exchange for a monthly fee. It is the turn of Warner to come to the party, and even go a little further. They are considering establishing a global license and propose (for a fee) access to a database containing all the music where you could draw at will. This initiative would enable them to recover some tens of billions of dollars annually, and tp refloat their economic model which has been seriously damaged, because the clampdown had no other effect than to make examples (of "offenders") and make the majors unpopular. Of course, this shift of some majors will only make a few happy, sellers of music online, which Apple leads, will have no reason to exist.Of course, there are many unknowns not yet revealed, starting with the sum that will represent this subscription, the way it will be charged and is presentation. Will it cover each Internet subscription? Will it be mandatory? In any case, the trend seems unstoppably moving in this direction, Apple is going to have to prepare for life after the iTunes Music Store and quickly develop the market for the sale of films, not waiting for these projects. On a more Franco-french note, such a license would make some laws obsolete, such as the law Olivenne which will be passed very soon, or the levy on private copying. [translation by jeremy]

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