Just months after a Resolution on the cultural and creative industries called for the “establishment of the right to fair remuneration and legal protection for authors”, MEPs have given a concrete sign that they want to make that call a reality.

Here you can find our short flyer explaining why audiovisual authors need an unwaivable remuneration right.

The FERA workshop in Ljubljana was hosted by Slovene members DSR (Directors' Guild of Slovenia) and AIPA, in association with SAA (Society of Audiovisual Authors) and FSE (Federation of Screenwriters in Europe). On the agenda was "Copyright in the DSM: Audiovisual authors’ need for fair and proportionate remuneration".

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.

A delegation of audiovisual authors and their collective management organisations (CMOs) from across Europe met Members of the European Parliament in Strasbourg to discuss copyright package ahead of the announcement of the winner of the European Parliament’s LUX Film Prize.

The 3nd edition of One Day in Strasbourg on 22nd November 2016 enabled SAA and its nine member delegations to reach out to 30 MEPs over two days.

What are the professional lives of screenwriters and directors like? How do they make a living and what are the challenges they face?

Europe is in the process of changing legislation on authors’ rights / copyright in Europe.

European Parliament’s Culture committee hearing today on the amending of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive follows the publication of a draft report that looks to narrow the regulatory differences between online and offline services and better promote European works.

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