[I]n a new filing with the [US Trade Representative] for its annual “Special 301” review of intellectual property rights protection, SoundExchange says that six countries deny full national treatment to American producers and performers, because “those countries are not paying them for the same uses that these countries are paying their own national producers and performers” — specifically, for traditional broadcasts, public performances and some digital uses.
The countries are the U.K, France, Australia, Japan, the Netherlands and Canada.
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