Today, the visibility of European films is still insufficient and there is still an important margin for improvement on distribution, promotion and findability on online platforms.

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.

Dear President Juncker, We are writing to share our thoughts on the place of culture in the EU budget ahead of the presentation by the European Commission of its draft Regulation for the post-2020 MFF in May 2018.

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.

Freedom of contract is seen as a corner stone of much of modern business and is often a key argument against regulation. But sometimes contractual freedom is a fiction and to defend it is to perpetuate injustice.

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.

There’s something about online platforms that seems to be causing problems with the development of the online market.