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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.

A tribute to Bertrand Tavernier

SAA Patron Volker Schlöndorff pays a moving tribute to his peer Bertrand Tavernier.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Take-Aways from SAA Online Event on the Copyright Directive, Article 18

On 25 November 2020, the SAA organised its first online event of a series of conversation with filmmakers, members of the European Parliament, Member States’ representatives and experts on how making the most of the new Copyright Directive for next generation authors.

Joint letter on behalf of Europe's cultural and creative sectors

Dear President von der Leyen,

Vice-President Schinas,

Commissioners Hahn, Gabriel, Breton,

Joint letter: Support for culture in the EU Recovery & Resilience Facility

The SAA, together with 20 other organisations from across the cultural and creative sector have sent a letter to Members of the European Parliament asking them to support culture in the Recovery and Resilience Facility.   

Joint statement: US and Asian consumer device manufacturers are targeting the Visegrad4 countries to avoid private copying compensation

Some of the world’s biggest consumer device manufacturers are aggressively targeting the Visegrad Four countries in an effort to weaken national legislation or application of the existing legal framework on private copying.

SAA's submission to the Copyright Directive's Article 17 consultation

While the negotiators and media on the EU Copyright Directive were focusing on Article 17, the SAA’s attention was on advocating for Article 18, to guarantee authors a remuneration paid by the operators who exploit their works.