The agreement ensures authors are compensated for copies of their works on smartphones while allowing consumers to use them on their mobiles and establishing legal certainty for device manufacturers and telecommunications service providers.

SAA, FERA and FSE have put forward 7 areas where the European Parliament can make concrete progress for screenwriters and directors over the next 5 years.

SAA contribution summary to the EU Commission copyright consultation: putting authors Bback at the heart of copyright policy

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.

Private copying is a key source of compensation for screenwriters and directors. Find out more about it and how the system could be improved.

The legal affairs committee exchanged views on the draft report by Mrs Castex MEP on the issue of private copying levies on 14 October 2013.

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.

On 18th September 2013 the European Parliament’s legal affairs committee held a hearing on private copying levies.  The hearing saw authors, performers, film producers, consumers and manufacturers present their visions of the system for MEPs to take into account as they prepare a report on the issue.

Making private copying levies work in the digital age: a proposals for a European framework (Castex report).

A major blow to device manufacturers and importers who just don’t want to be involved in the compensation of creators. Private copying seems to be taking up quite a bit of the European Court of Justice’s time just lately.

The ruling published on 27 June 2013 recognises that any device used as part of a reproduction process can be subject to a levy to compensate authors for the reproduction, without their authorisation, of their protected works.