Outline: - Information management in the information society; - The problem under present copyright regulation; - The Council Directive on cable retransmission and satellite broadcasting and the obligation to negotiate and to settle disputes; - The obligation to negotiate - solutions in telecommunication law; - Future regulation : The Commission's proposal for a Directive on copyright and related rights in the information society; - Proposal for an extented collective licensing scheme; - The implications of Magill : the correlation of copyright and competition law;.