The Federation of European Film Directors (FERA), the Federation of Screenwriters in Europe (FSE) and SAA invited Members of the European Parliament to a breakfast-briefing chaired by MEP Jean-Marie Cavada (ALDE), on Copyright in the Digital Single Market.

The Society of Audiovisual Authors welcomes the agreement between the European Parliament, the Council and the European Commission on the reform of EU rules governing audiovisual media services. It thanks policy makers for their willingness to lay down new rules to adapt the European framework to the emergence of digital platforms.

As organisations working across the European audiovisual sector, and in the context of the discussions surrounding the next Multi-annual Financial Framework, we would like to reiterate our support for the Creative Europe MEDIA Programme,

A wide cross-section of the European creative community hopes and expects the European institutions to agree on a meaningful solution to the very real and growing problem associated with Direct Injection (DI). We have been disappointed by the Council’s decision so far not to address the problem.

The revision of the Audiovisual Media Services (AVMS) Directive is currently in interinstitutional negotiations between the European Commission (EC), Parliament and Council.

126 prominent screenwriters and directors across Europe, and their representative organisations, have come together to call on the legislators of the European Union to seize the momentum of the adoption of the Copyright Directive in the Digital Single Market to once and for all support Europe’s creators in the online environment.

The beginning of 2018 will most likely be the end of long and intense negotiations leading up to a final adoption of the EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. The Directive proposal was presented by the European Commission in September 2016, and we have now reached the final stages of discussions.

SAA welcomes adoption of European Parliament Broadcasting Regulation negotiating mandate on 12 December and thanks members of Parliament who supported importance of territorial exclusivity.

The digital evolution of broadcasting, with the development of on-demand services, has led the European institutions to propose a reform of the 1993 CabSat Directive in the form of a new Regulation.

AGICOA and SAA today welcomed the Ampere Analysis economic survey of channel distribution in the EU, which confirms that broadcast signals, whether domestic or cross-border, are overwhelmingly transmitted to retransmission platforms such as cable using a method known as Direct Injection.

Today, the European Parliament Industry and Culture committees voted in favour of an unwaivable right to fair remuneration for authors and performers for the making available of their works. Supported by the European audiovisual authors’ community, such a remuneration right would ensure that screenwriters and directors receive royalties when their works are exploited on on-demand services, wherever in Europe, thanks to its collective mechanism.

Canal+, one of the most prominent investors in French cinema, has stopped paying the authors’ Collective Management Organisations the royalties due for films and TV series it broadcasts.