Fortify Copyrights, Europe Artists Say

European artists called for stricter enforcement of European Union copyright rules and urged the European Commission to make Internet service providers play a greater role in the process. Creative-industry players from songwriters to TV companies are eager to influence the current overhaul of the EU's copyright rules. Last month, the commission set out its intellectual-property strategy covering everything from industrial patents to music downloads as it tried to find cohesion among rules across 27 countries and adjust laws made for the age of vinyl to the Internet era.