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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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Culture, the big loser of the next European Commission
Culture portfolio is losing departments as well as prestige and importance.
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Baking cakes and making films
Think of Europe as a patchwork quilt. One, single quilt made of patches of different shapes and sizes.
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The Lives of Others
The popular winner in the press after the European Parliament elections is ‘others’, a mix of national eurosceptic, extreme right and anti-establishment parties that together represent the 3rd highest grouping (estimates put EPP at 213 seats, S&D at 189 seats and other at 105 seats).
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Cinéma européen, le yéti de Bruxelles
A Bruxelles, dans les instances européennes, nous discutons beaucoup de cinéma européen : cette créature dont tout le monde parle mais que personne n’a rencontrée et qui fait l’objet de nombreux débats économiques ou juridiques qui laissent finalement peu de place à l’expression du talent de nos auteurs, à leurs idées, à leur vision.
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11,117 contributions! Democracy in action?
The clock strikes 12.
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Le citoyen européen et le droit d’auteur
Je ne fais pas mienne la citation de Winston Churchill : « The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter » (Le meilleur argument contre la démocratie est un entretien de cinq minutes avec un électeur moyen).
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Creators' Contracts – unfair?
“The existing contractual protection of authors, as included in copyright law and, indirectly, in general contract law, appears not to be sufficient or effective to secure a fair remuneration to authors or address some unfair contractual provisions.Besides the causes that are generally put forward to explain this unbalance and lack of protection, new elements have emerged.
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