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Between a rock and a hard place
The recent report by Green Pirate MEP Julia Reda really hammers home how the polarisation of the authors’ rights/ copyright debate has made it difficult for creators to talk about the future of their industry. The latest blog post by Ms Reda asserts as much, too.
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Changing the perspective
The European Parliament now has 4 committees looking at the 2001 copyright Directive.
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Legislative time travel: 2001 a Copyright Odyssey
If you could go back, knowing what you know now, what would you change about the 2001 Copyright Directive? This seems to be the premise for Julia Reda’s evaluation draft report on the much maligned directive. But is this the right way to do it?
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2015: A year for authors’ rights?
A very happy new year from the SAA team to all our readers! So, what lies ahead in 2015 in terms of policy and court cases of interest to Europe’s screenwriters and directors?
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Saint Nick’s Creative Policy Puzzle
On the eve of Saint Nick’s visit to the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and the eastern and western reaches of France and Germany respectively, an old-fashioned game themed post.
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The Cross-border question – financing, exploiting & remunerating
Last year I wrote in the German press about the frustration of seeing unlicensed copies of my work freely available and easy to find on the internet and the absence of legal services delivering the full range of European films I would expect. I wanted to be provocative to strike the contrast between my expectations and the market delivery, but I also wanted to show that there are possible solutions. I suggested creating compulsory licences for European audiovisual works.
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Authors’ organisations open the European copyright ball
Authors’ organisations of the text (EWC), visual arts (EVA) and music (ECSA) sectors held conferences to address new MEPs last week.
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From creative gold dust to just dust
The new Commission, and Europe in general, must stop paying lip service to creation.
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Calls to revise the AVMS Directive
Is the Audiovisual Media Services Directive still fit for purpose? This was the very important debate launched by the Italian Presidency of the Council at a conference on the audiovisual market and regulation on 23 and 24 October in Rome.
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Are content creators content?
Europe is a historical continent of content creators.
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Vilnius on the forefront of audiovisual authors’ rights protection
I have just got back from Vilnius where I was invited by the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture to make a presentation on the collective management of audiovisual authors’ rights.
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D-Day for Oettinger (D is for Digital)
Today is the big one. SAA and anyone else in the audiovisual sector is now under no doubt of which hearing they need to follow. Günther Oettinger.
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