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European Copyright Consultation – Make your voice heard!
The SAA is calling on European screenwriters, directors and their professional organisations to reply to the public consultation.
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Felix van Groeningen's Broken Circle Breakdown wins LUX Prize
European Parliament prize runners up are Valeria Golino's Miele, and Clio Barnard's The Selfish Giant.
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Adapting Private copying to the digital age [infographic]
Private copying is a key source of compensation for screenwriters and directors. Find out more about it and how the system could be improved.
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Audiovisual authors’ collective management organisations welcome Trilogue Directive agreement
As the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs committee validated the Parliament-Commission-Council trilogue’s compromise text reached on 4 November, European audiovisual authors’ societies welcome the finalisation of the text of the Directive and call on the Commission to build on it now to improve authors’ remuneration in the digital era.
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Licences for Europe : SAA at heart of concrete progress
SAA involved in most progressive proposals from stakeholder dialogue on getting Europe’s film heritage online and making our European services portable.
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European Culture Forum – 4-6 November 2013
SAA to speak at a flash session on the Cultural and Creative Industries Platform.
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European Authors’ and Performers’ Organisations Welcome Draft Report On Private Copying Levies
We, the undersigned European organisations, who give voice and visibility to the concerns of hundreds of thousands of professional authors and performers who make a living in the creative industries, warmly welcome the draft report by Ms Francoise Castex MEP on private copying levies.
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SAA mourns loss of Lizzani
It is with deep regret that the SAA has learnt of the death of legendary Italian director, Carlo Lizzani. A founding patron of the SAA, Lizzani directed films including “The Violent Four” and “Celluloide”.
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SAA, FERA and FSE call for prominence of European works online
Joint contribution to converged media green paper underlines importance of AVMS Directive in guaranteeing future health of EU audiovisual production.
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Janine Lorente re-elected chair of SAA board of Directors
At its board meeting on 2nd July 2013, SAA re-elected SACD’s Deputy General Manager, Janine Lorente, as the chair of the board of directors and VG Wort’s Managing Director, Robert Staats, as the vice-chair.
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SAA welcomes CJEU ruling in VG Wort case
The ruling published on 27 June 2013 recognises that any device used as part of a reproduction process can be subject to a levy to compensate authors for the reproduction, without their authorisation, of their protected works.
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European Screenwriters and Directors societies welcome audiovisual exclusion from TTIP
The Society of Audiovisual Authors on behalf of its members and the 120,000 screenwriters and directors whose rights they represent welcome the Council's adoption of a negotiation mandate that excludes audiovisual services, including for online, and that any subsequent change to the mandate on this issue will require unanimity among the Council.
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