The UK’s recently implemented exception for private copying has been submitted for judicial review by a group of creators’ organisations. They contest that the UK exception is not in line with the European Copyright Directive.

German screenwriter and SAA patron, Fred Breinersdorfer, to speak at European Voice Copyright 2015 conference and underline the need for authors interests to also be part of the discussions on copyright reform and cross-border access.

Directors UK report among others to be discussed at European Audiovisual Observatory workshop at Cannes film festival

A number of Europe’s screenwriters and directors including Costa-Gavras, Agnès Jaoui and Enrique Urbizu called for the next European institutions to support culture and its creators.

German screenwriter calls copyright and collective management organisations a screenwriter’s “only weapons” in “jungle full of snakes”.

The Society of Audiovisual Authors congratulates the European Parliament and particularly French MEP Françoise Castex, following the adoption of her report in plenary on private copying levies on 27 February. The report rightly underlines the continued relevance of the system to the digital age and its importance to Europe’s creators.

Authors’ and performers’ organisations congratulate Legal Affairs committee on forward-looking report that looks at how to sustainably modernise the implementation of the private copying levy system to cater for permanently evolving consumption patterns of copyrighted works and to ensure its efficient functioning within the single market.

The SAA is calling on European screenwriters, directors and their professional organisations to reply to the public consultation.

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.

SAA involved in most progressive proposals from stakeholder dialogue on getting Europe’s film heritage online and making our European services portable.

SAA to speak at a flash session on the Cultural and Creative Industries Platform.

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.