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Controversial DTI survey brings CD prices to fore.
UK CD pricing has been placed under the spotlight again with the publication of a controversial DTI branded goods survey, which claims that retailers in Britain are charging more than the US and some other European countries for best-selling album titles.
The Government department, which is using the report to push its case for relaxing the EU Trade Mark Directive, is holding off from blaming record companies and shops for the price differentials until the results of the Office of Fair Trading investigation are known in the summer.
The BPI is examining the methodology of the report and promises to make further submissions to the Government to ensure that it sticks to its 1999 promise to provide special protection for CDs if the broader rules on trade marks are relaxed. Director general Andrew Yeates says he will also press for a ...
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