Filmmakers and copyright experts have gathered at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva to discuss the lack of fair remuneration for audiovisual creators, and the urgent need for a study on the global situation of remuneration for audiovisual authors worldwide. 

On 1 April, SAA General Assembly elected a new leadership; a Board of Directors that will guide the strategic direction of the organisation for 2025-2027 to address the challenges facing audiovisual authors in Europe, including the impact of generative AI, the uncertain regulatory environment and the challenging political climate.

The Society of Audiovisual Authors (SAA) congratulates Poland on the implementation of the 2019 Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market and the Directive on Retransmission. After a long uphill battle, a historic milestone has finally been reached.

On the occasion of the announcement of the five films nominated for the LUX Audience Award 2025, the Federation of European Screen Directors (FERA), the Federation of Screenwriters in Europe (FSE) and the SAA call in their joint statement on the Members of the European Parliament to empower European audiovisual creation in all its diversity during their 10th parliamentary term.

European and international associations of authors’ collective management organisations in the audiovisual, music, text and visual art’s sectors express their concern about the recent cut in the private copying compensation in Finland.

Members of the SAA and its Patrons are sending a message to their fellow citizens to stand up for a democratic Europe and its cultural diversity by voting in the European elections on 6-9 June 2024.

The SAA's expert seminar on 30 January brought together policymakers, academics, authors and CMOs’ representatives, who discussed the impact of generative AI on audiovisual authors’ work and rights in Europe.

A broad coalition of over 200 organisations in Europe’s creative and cultural sectors call on EU-countries to show global leadership and approve the AI Act.

The political compromise reached between the EU Parliament, Council and Commission on the EU AI Act on 8 December is now being finetuned at technical level. The SAA welcomes the agreed upon transparency obligations of general-purpose AI models’ providers operating in the EU market. The technical discussions must now consolidate the political agreement, without weakening its scope, and make transparency a reality.

700 organisations from the film, cinema, and audiovisual sector in Europe jointly urge the European Parliament to cast a vote in favour of culture on 13 December 2023 by opposing the call for future inclusion of audiovisual services in the scope of the EU Geo-blocking Regulation. Rejecting the call for future inclusion of audiovisual services is a vote in favour of preserving Europe’s cultural and linguistic diversity.

Today the EU Parliament passed a resolution addressing the urgent need for an EU framework aimed at improving the social and professional situation of artists and workers in the cultural and creative sectors and calling on the Member States that have not yet introduced a specific status for artists to do so. The SAA welcomes the Parliament’s call to improve the situation for professionals within the cultural and creative sectors, in particular authors’ fair remuneration and recognition of their authorsh

Read the SAA comprehensive position clarifying the specific challenges Artificial Intelligence poses to European audiovisual authors and their collective management organisations (CMOs).