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Position: 5 ways to support next generation screenwriters and directors
The SAA highlights the specific conditions and difficulties that young and aspiring European directors and screenwriters face in the 21st century of moving images and puts forward 5 ways to support next generation audiovisual authors.
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Presentation: Remuneration mechanisms for audiovisual authors in the EU
Although most Member States’ delayed transposition of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, Cécile Despringre, Executive Director of the SAA, has been invited as a guest speaker at several occasions to present the state of play of the implementation of the Copyright directive’s – Article 18 – on fair and proportionate remuneration and its impact on audiovisual authors’ remuneration.
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Press release: Fair remuneration for creators, says the Parliament
On 19 October, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the situation of artists and the cultural recovery in the EU prepared by MEP Monica SEMEDO for the Culture committee. The SAA welcomes this important resolution that calls for minimum social standards for artists and cultural workers and shows that the EU can do more to guarantee fair and proportionate remuneration for authors.
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Press release: Lights and action on authors' royalties
Screenwriters and directors from around the world share their experiences and call for action on royalties
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Press release: Be bold and implement Article 18 with a statutory right to remuneration, advise legal experts Member States
Be bold, look at the success stories of statutory rights to remuneration to ensure fair remuneration to audiovisual authors, was the message of three legal experts at SAA’s seminar to national legislators ahead of today’s deadline to implement the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market.
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Joint press release: European Creative Documentaries, the leftovers of the new MEDIA programme
We, European authors, producers and distributors, welcome the adoption of the legal basis of the Europe Creative programme by the European Parliament, and the support provided to European creation. We are looking forward to the start of the calls for the Media Programme as soon as possible. However, the Work Programme for 2021 prepared by the European Commission includes concerns for the documentary sector which must be changed urgently.
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A tribute to Bertrand Tavernier
SAA Patron Volker Schlöndorff pays a moving tribute to his peer Bertrand Tavernier.
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Joint letter: Secure a future for cultural life in Europe
The SAA have co-signed a letter by more than 110 pan-European networks, coordinated by Culture Action Europe. Today it has been sent to the Member States and the European Commission to secure a future for culture and cultural life in Europe.
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Press release: Performers and audiovisual authors call on Member States to entrust CMOs to manage their royalties
On 17 March 2021, European collective management organisations and their members came together to discuss how to secure fair remuneration to performers and audiovisual authors.
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Press release: CMOs are a safety net for authors, but there must be other lifelines in the current crisis
"Collective management – A safety net for authors and performers" is the title of the SAA and AEPO-ARTIS upcoming event on 17 March. It also well describes the results of the surveys the SAA conducted among its members, demonstrating the collective management organisations’ continued efforts and mobilisation of resources to support audiovisual authors through the pandemic.
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New study: The cultural and creative economy before and after the COVID-19 crisis
Europe's creative economy has been decimated by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Venues remain closed, productions postponed and advertising revenues have plummeted. We have all, individually, suffered the effects of cultural and social scarcity. But 2019 was a different story.
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Joint letter: A welcome budgetary increase for Creative Europe/MEDIA
An essential programme for the recovery and sustainability of the European film and audiovisual sector in COVID-19 times
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