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Secretary General’s July Digest, 2023
After the summer, the SAA will take on where it left of before the summer break. We will continue our work following the development in the EU Parliament with the Artists’ Status, European Media Freedom Act, Artificial Intelligence and the European elections 2024. Read Cécile Despringre digest of SAA’s activities during the month of July.
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Artists’ legal status is not a privilege, it is fairness.
Authors and other creative professionals are the key actors in the creative value chains and deserve to be treated fairly. Their rights should be recognised and their contribution to society and the economy valued, writes EU Member States’ expert group in its recent report on the status of the artists. Their proposal, a legal status for artists and creative professionals is not a privilege nor an honorary title, it is a way to reduce social and economic disadvantages.
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Secretary General's June Digest, 2023
In June, we proudly expanded our Board of SAA Patrons with 3 new Patrons. Our key activities have been our networking lunch with MEPs that we organised on the occasion of the LUX Audience Award, issuing a statement and inviting authors' perspectives on AI, and joining forces on the European Media Freedom Act.
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Secretary General's May Digest, 2023
Among our many activities in May, we welcomed new Patrons, attended meetings and networked during the Cannes Film Festival and we shared updates about the implementation of SatCab II and the Copyright Directives.
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Better late and effective than early and toothless
The adoption of the EU Directive 2019/790 on Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Single Market (The Directive) was a great victory for authors after three years of intense negotiations and strong opposition from content sharing platforms like YouTube.
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Scooping the scope of the SatCab II Directive
The ‘SatCab II’ Directive (EU) 2019/789, on copyright and related rights applicable to certain online transmissions of broadcasting organisations and retransmissions of television and radio programmes expanded the scope of the first Directive 93/83/EEC. It regulated retransmissions by other means than cable, direct injection and domestic retransmissions. What is the outcome of the implementation in the 24 Member States that have transposed the Directive so far?
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Secretary General's April Digest, 2023
In April we greeted 4 new SAA Patrons, participated in the European Parliament’s consultations on the implementation report of the Creative Europe programme and the EU framework on artists’ status, as well as its draft report on the European Media Freedom Act. I went to Prague for the European committee of CISAC, and we continued supporting our members with legal advice and EU level data for their national advocacy for authors’ rights.
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A mixed image of equality in Slovenia’s audiovisual sector
Slovenia ranks 12th on the European Gender Equality Index, it performs particularly well in terms of access to financial resources and has recently progressed in participation in decision making. On the other hand, the audiovisual sector does not seem to progress in the same pace.
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Secretary General’s March Digest, 2023
In March, we promoted audiovisual authors’ rights at the international level, both with an online event with our Latin American colleagues and participation in the WIPO meeting of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights in Geneva. We also met with SAA members in Brussels for our general assembly meeting and partnered for the screening of a Swedish documentary film linked to the Swedish Presidency of the Council. This is all the diversity of activities that I love at the SAA.
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Secretary General’s February Digest, 2023
In February, we were back to the Berlinale, we closed the SAA 2022 accounts and prepared our upcoming General Assembly meeting. We welcomed filmmakers from Romania, Slovenia and Croatia to our Board of Patrons and organised an online event with authors and experts from Latin America and Europe on audiovisual authors’ rights.
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The audiovisual sector so male
This year the Golden Globes, the Oscars and most recently the French César awards all failed to nominate any women for best director catalysing campaigns such as #OscarsSoMale and #CesarSoMale. Even the European Parliament’s LUX Audience Award only had one female director nominee out of five film finalists, making it clear that there still are many steps that need to be taken to reach a more equal and diverse film sector, and appreciation for women behind and on the screen.
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Secretary General's Monthly Digest: January 2023
This is my first monthly digest. Whether you are a policymaker, filmmaker or other professional in the cultural and audiovisual sector, I hope my chronicle about the SAA’s activities may be valuable for you to get an insight into our work in support of audiovisual authors’ rights in Europe.
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