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Portability Regulation – Audiovisual authors regret holes in final agreement
The Portability Regulation agreement represents a mixed result for collective management organisations for screenwriters and directors: positive as it represents a bonus for consumers which will enable EU residents to travel across Europe with continued access to their subscription services, negative as the final agreement contains holes that risk opening up the Regulation to abuse and eroding the territorial licensing system that underpins the financing of the European audiovisual sector.
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FREE KEYWAN KARIMI
Sentenced by the Iranian authorities to one year in prison and 223 lashes, Keywan Karimi has finally been imprisoned. His crime was to make films.
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Workshop - Copyright in the DSM: Audiovisual authors’ need for fair and proportionate remuneration
Organised by FERA, DSR and SAA member AIPA, the workshop in Ljubljana brings together European authors' organisations to discuss how the copyright package can benefit screenwriters and directors.
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SAA positions on Copyright Directive & Broadcasting Regulation
As discussions continue in the Parliament and Council, SAA has made its positions on the European Commission's copyright proposals public.
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European Parliament calls for Right to Fair Remuneration for Authors
SAA welcomes the Resolution on a coherent EU policy for cultural and creative industries (CCIs) which calls for the “establishment of the right to fair remuneration and legal protection for authors”. SAA now calls on the Parliament to make this a reality by adding such a right for audiovisual authors in its work on the European Commission’s copyright Directive proposal.
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Screenwriters and directors call on European Parliament to put authors at heart of copyright reform
A delegation of audiovisual authors and their collective management organisations (CMOs) from across Europe met Members of the European Parliament in Strasbourg to discuss copyright package ahead of the announcement of the winner of the European Parliament’s LUX Film Prize.
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*NEW* video on audiovisual authors’ remuneration
What are the professional lives of screenwriters and directors like? How do they make a living and what are the challenges they face?
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SAA welcomes European Parliament moves to promote European film and TV
European Parliament’s Culture committee hearing today on the amending of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive follows the publication of a draft report that looks to narrow the regulatory differences between online and offline services and better promote European works.
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Copyright package: Progress undermined by failure to strengthen rights of authors
The wide-reaching copyright package presented today by the European Commission is met with a mixed reaction by SAA. Beyond these first steps to support authors, SAA calls for greater ambition at EU level for screenwriters and directors.
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Europe’s Audiovisual Future – welcome progress on promotion of European works
Catalogue quotas, prominence requirements and possible financing commitments for VOD all welcome steps forward in promoting European creation in the digital era.
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World IP Day – Authors’ Rights and Copyright
The 26th April is world intellectual property day. Authors’ rights and copyright are forms of intellectual property and are vital on two levels for screenwriters and directors. Firstly they are moral rights which protects the authors’ vision and the integrity of their work. Secondly they are essential to the remuneration of audiovisual authors.
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SAA elects new board, chair and vice-chair
SAA’s General Assembly elected a new board in Brussels on 13th April, with ALCS’s Barbara Hayes (UK) re-elected as chair and SACD’s Patrick Raude (FR) being elected vice-chair.
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