The SAA works on a wide variety of policy issues affecting the rights of audiovisual authors. These range from copyright and culture to media and digital policies. You can view our key areas of work here.
Being granted authorship on their works is the first step screenwriters and directors need. Authors’ rights are about recognising their role and talent in the creative process, as well as their moral and economic rights.
The AVMS Directive obliges on-demand media service providers in the EU to include at least 30% European content in their catalogues and ensure its prominence. EU countries may also require media service providers to contribute financially to the production of European works.
Authors become members of a collective management organisation (CMO) to ensure that they are paid for uses that they would not be in a position to enforce against users themselves. CMOs facilitate the dissemination of audiovisual works and the distribution of royalties to authors.
Gender equality, non-discrimination and cultural diversity are fundamental EU values and drivers of economic growth. They need to be promoted in political leadership, in decision-making, on the labour market and in society at large. The audiovisual sector is no exception.