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Audiovisual Authors’ Remuneration – from remuneration to transparency?
Ahead of the European Commission’s copyright announcements, SAA today publishes its infographic on audiovisual authors’ remuneration.
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Leaks, Copyright and Remuneration
The last 10 days have seen more light shined on the European Commission’s copyright plans following a series of leaks – an Impact Assessment, a draft Directive, a draft Communication.
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Look! a Netflix tax!
And while you were distracted by that, you didn’t notice all the extra TV advertising.
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Portability – A question of time
The first copyright proposal of the European Commission is a Regulation to enable temporary access to subscription services from your home country while travelling in Europe.
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Fair remuneration is not a tax
If there is one thing we know about Big Tech, they don’t like paying tax.
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The never-ending private copying saga
Previously, two Commissioners have had a stab at resolving the hoo ha around private copying levies and failed. This new Commission seemed to have recognised that this was one issue where entrenched, opposing industry positions and overly differing viewpoints between the Member States made progress an unlikely result for a Commission focused on being big on big things and small on small things.
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Platforms - Mutton dressed as lamb?
There’s something about online platforms that seems to be causing problems with the development of the online market.
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Satellite and cable: inspiration for online?
Just before Christmas the European Commission published preliminary statistics on the responses to the Satellite and Cable Directive (or SatCab as it is affectionately known).
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The long-awaited Commission copyright action plan
Since my previous post on the leaked version of the Commission communication, not much has changed in the final version of the communication on a modern, more European copyright framework adopted on 9 December 2015.
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5 years of SAA
SAA was created 5 years ago to represent the interests of collective management organisations (or CMOs) for audiovisual authors. When we say audiovisual authors we specifically mean screenwriters and directors of film, TV and multimedia programmes.
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Copyright love-me-nots, a year of the Juncker Commission
Since the beginning of this new Commission a year ago, copyright has been a contentious issue.
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AVMS – Improving the promotion of European works online
One consultation down, just a couple more to go.
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