Recommendations to the EU and Member States

SAA contribution to the consultation of the European Commission on Article 17: Supporting licensing agreements between CMOs and OCSSPs

The European Commission is in the process of putting forward new  rules to deepen the Internal Market for Digital Services. A public consultation has been carried out on a Digital Services Act (DSA). Here you can read the SAA's response. 

A revision of the E-Commerce Directive as the horizontal instrument that regulates digital services is necessary to reflect the rapid transformation and expansion of e-commerce in all its forms and address the current challenges. The E-Commerce Directive is indeed outdated. It does not address today’s market realities: a much wider diversity of services than in 2000 and the massive turnover generated by and around these digital services.

Targeted consultation on the method of calculation of the share of European works and the exemptions for low audience and low turnover (Art. 13.7 Directive EU 2010/13)

As discussions continue in the Parliament and Council, SAA has made its positions on the European Commission's copyright proposals public.

The retransmission of TV and radio programmes is a very important market for audiovisual authors because it has developed in a collective management context thanks to the 93/83/EEC Directive. Today, very often, retransmission royalties are with private copying the only remuneration audiovisual authors receive when their works are exploited abroad.

SAA comments on the EU Commssion proposal1 for a Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market.

Proposal for a Directive amending the Audiovisual Media Services Directive 2010/13/EU

Summary of SAA contribution to the public consultation on the review of the Satellite and Cable Directive