The Directive also stipulates the mandatory administration by collecting societies of cable retransmission rights (Article 9).

A number of interest groups came to make clarifications about the problem of rebroadcasting certain programs on the internet, including BCE, CBC, the Société professionnelle des auteurs et des compositeurs du Québec, the Society for Reproduction Rights for Authors, Composers and Publishers in Canada, the Canadian Cable Television Association, the Société des auteurs de radio télévision et cinéma (SARTEC), the Association des producteurs de films et de télévision du Québec, the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Cana ...[+++]da and the Fédération nationale des communications .

The Société professionnelle des auteurs et des compositeurs du Québec, the Society for Reproduction Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers in Canada all agree in favour of compulsory licensing of Internet-based retransmission.

The CBC is not opposed to the expansion of the mandatory licensing system set up under section 31, which I will explain later, to cover rebroadcasting over the Internet.

A rightholder referred to in this paragraph shall have the same rights and obligations resulting from the agreement between the cable operator and the collecting society which is deemed to be mandated to manage his rights as the rightholders who have mandated that collecting society and he shall be able to claim those rights within a period, to be fixed by the Member State concerned, which shall not be shorter than three years from the date of the cable retransmission which inc ...[+++]ludes his work or other protected subject matter.

In other words, the Community initiative will confine itself to eliminating the weaknesses the system has exhibited in the past. The problem here is "outside interests" (holders of rights who claim not to have been represented when the comprehensive agreement was negotiated and prevent a programme being put out), negotiations which lead nowhere and the question of whether exclusive rights can be acquired when original programmes broadcast by satellite are picked up and put out on cable (a) Outside interests There are two mechanisms whereby the acquisition of cable rights could be "channelled" and cable operators given legal security: either corporate management companies could be given the mandatory and exclusive right to authorize cable ...[+++]relays or collective agreements could be extended to cover unrepresented rights holders.