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It is time to act: support fair remuneration for audiovisual authors online
126 prominent screenwriters and directors across Europe, and their representative organisations, have come together to call on the legislators of the European Union to seize the momentum of the adoption of the Copyright Directive in the Digital Single Market to once and for all support Europe’s creators in the online environment.
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Les cinéastes invitent... Aktan Arym Kubat
On the occasion of the premiere of his new film “Centaure”, L'ARP, Le Cinéma des Cinéastes, la SACD, SAA and Epicentre Films are very happy to organise an evening with the Kirghiz director Aktan Arym Kubat, as a part of our series of screenings "Les Cinéastes invitent… l’ami européen".
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Cabsat Regulation: a good step for the financing of creation; trilogue must now address issue of direct injection
SAA welcomes adoption of European Parliament Broadcasting Regulation negotiating mandate on 12 December and thanks members of Parliament who supported importance of territorial exclusivity.
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Screenwriters and Directors demand fair payment for online use of their work
As the European Parliament handed out its cinema award – the Lux Prize – Europe’s associations of screenwriters and directors and their collective management organisations congregated in Strasbourg to meet MEPs and new Digital Commissioner Mariya Gabriel with a clear message: despite the welcome benefits of awards ceremonies like the Lux prize, many screenwriters and directors are unable to sustain a career as an author.
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Les cinéastes invitent... Ildikó Enyedi
On the occasion of the premiere of her new film "On Body and Soul", L'ARP, Cinéma des Cinéastes, la SACD, SAA and Le Pacte are very happy to organise an evening with Hungarian director Ildikó Enyedi, as part of our series of screenings "Les Cinéastes invitent… l’ami européen". Check out the interview below.
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SAA is looking for an intern
We are currently looking for an intern to assist the SAA team
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Expert Survey Shows Direct Injection as the Principal Form of Broadcasting in Europe
AGICOA and SAA today welcomed the Ampere Analysis economic survey of channel distribution in the EU, which confirms that broadcast signals, whether domestic or cross-border, are overwhelmingly transmitted to retransmission platforms such as cable using a method known as Direct Injection.
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SAA welcomes reintroduction of private copying levies in Spain
On 4th August, the private copying levy system will be re-introduced in Spain following years of court cases and insufficient compensation from the state budget.
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European Copyright: Parliament committees vote for an unwaivable right to fair remuneration for audiovisual authors
Today, the European Parliament Industry and Culture committees voted in favour of an unwaivable right to fair remuneration for authors and performers for the making available of their works. Supported by the European audiovisual authors’ community, such a remuneration right would ensure that screenwriters and directors receive royalties when their works are exploited on on-demand services, wherever in Europe, thanks to its collective mechanism.
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European Parliament committee declines to support audiovisual authors in copyright vote
The European Parliament’s Internal Market Committee (IMCO), the first to vote an opinion on the Commission’s Copyright Directive proposal, failed to vote on any of 5 amendments calling for audiovisual authors’ to be paid proportionately to the exploitation of their works. The 5 amendments, which came from MEPs from the two biggest political groups in the Parliament, all called for an unwaivable right to remuneration for screenwriters and directors for the on-demand exploitation of their works.
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AVMS Directive – Great progress to support Europe’s audiovisual works
General Approach adopted by Culture Council goes further than European Commission proposal and promises a positive result on promotion of European works ahead of negotiations on final text with European Parliament and Commission.
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Call of European Filmmakers - Festival de Cannes 2017
We, European citizens and filmmakers, live in a Europe that is a standard-bearer of hope when it remains faithful to its values of tolerance, open-mindedness and diversity and stands against the current trends towards nationalism, alternative facts and mistrust.
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