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.

Here you find SAA short booklet looking at how collective rights management organisations work and the rules that apply in different European countries for royalty distributions.

Janine Lorente, the chair of the SAA board of directors presented SAA’s position on the collective rights management directive proposal on 18 March.

Following the publication in July of the European Commission’s proposal for a directive on collective rights management, the SAA has now published its detailed comments on the proposal.

Audiovisual Triangles and Musical Circles Before the summer the European Commission (finally) published its long awaited proposal for a Directive on Collective Rights Management (here).

The conference was held on 29th November from 2pm to 6pm at the Concert Noble in Brussels followed by a reception and a screening of "Les Neiges du Kilimandjaro" by Robert Guédiguian, this year's LUX Price winning film, at Flagey.

SAA has submitted its opinion on the proposal for a Directive on orphan works that is currently making its way through the European Parliament and the Council.

Public consultation on the European Commission report on the application of Directive 2004/48/EC on the enforcement of intellectual property rights.