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Meet our member: AIPA in Slovenia
You may know that on 1 July, Slovenia took over the Presidency of the Council of the EU. However, did you know that Slovenia is the home of 90,000 beekeepers, the oldest known musical instrument (a 60,000 years old ‘Neanderthal Flute’) and AIPA, the collective management organisation of authors, performers, and producers of audiovisual works of Slovenia.
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Equality and diversity in the spotlight
CharactHer, a new campaign by the European Commission, features inspiring women professionals and puts a spotlight on gender equality in the male dominated film and media sectors. A recent report by the European Audiovisual Observatory identifies 3 challenges: difficulties in measuring progress on on-screen representation, the complexity of collecting data on diversity, and the need for intersectional approaches.
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Voices of Culture message to EU countries: fair practices for cultural and creative professionals
Voices of Culture call on the EU to adopt a holistic approach to determining the social and economic status of artists and cultural workers. The SAA has been part of developing its recommendations addressing fair pay, flattening income variations, collective bargaining, intellectual property rights and grants.
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Turning words into actions for European culture and authors
The pandemic crisis is best described as unpredictable. Its waves of COVID-19 infections left us insecure about the future. However, following the roll-out of vaccination, we can finally start to plan ahead. On the EU level, institutions are working on initiatives that could contribute to a more hopeful future for the cultural and creative sectors.
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The opportunity with a delayed copyright transposition
7 June 2021 is the last day to implement the directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market into national law, but few EU Member States will meet the deadline. EU countries have the opportunity to carefully, while still urgently, implement the directive and present a recovery plan to actively support the creative and cultural sector. In return, the sector will be able to nurture European’s wellbeing and recovery.
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2020 brought the cultural and creative sectors closer together
Little did we know that 2020 would turn out the way it did, although the road is still long to recovery, I am hopeful that we will turn a corner by the end of 2021. When the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, the SAA swiftly shifted its priorities. The health crisis led to more cooperation and coordinated action within the cultural and creative sectors than before.
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“Setting up a new European organisation was an exciting challenge I could not refuse.”
“Setting up a new European organisation was an exciting challenge I could not refuse”, said Cécile Despringre, Executive Director, when sharing her experience of developing the SAA over one decade ago. “10 years from now, I hope we will have a more harmonised Europe for audiovisual authors’ rights and remuneration, also for online demand. However, there is a risk for the European model to be overturned by a US approach that deprives authors of their rights”, warned Despringre.
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Artificial Intelligence’s impact on filmmaking
In recent years, there has been an important increase on the use of AI in the audiovisual and media sectors. This raises key questions on authorship and creativity.
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Making the economic case for culture
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on culture has been, and still is, devastating. While many policymakers understand the consequences of the crisis on our health, social life and wellbeing, few are aware of the important role that the cultural sector can play for the recovery of the European economy.
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Meet our member: SPA in Portugal
On the 1st of January, Portugal took over as Chair of the EU Council Presidency. The country is well-known for its port wine and football players, but less for being the home of one of the world’s oldest Universities and bookstores. “We are very old but at the same time we are very proud of our modernity”, said Paula Cunha when describing SPA, the Portuguese Collective Management Organisation, soon to reach a century of age.
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Time to secure a status for authors and artists
Of the total employment in EU27, 3,7% (7,3 million) people work in the cultural sectors and one third are self-employed (Eurostat 2019). COVID-19 has worsened their already precarious situation and left many without any regular income and difficulties to prove their eligibility for any possible financial support mainly designed for employees or businesses.
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The new Copyright legislation: Making the most for next generation authors
On 25 November, the SAA organised the event “The new Copyright legislation: Making the most for next generation authors” with the participation of filmmakers, policymakers and experts to discuss the authors’ right to remuneration in the new EU legislation.
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