In 2011 the EU extended the term of protection of performers’ neighbouring rights from 50 years to 70 years. In doing this, the EU aimed at guaranteeing that performers benefit from...
We are pleased to announce that AEPO-ARTIS has officially become a stakeholder of the European Union Intellectual Property Office’s (EUIPO) Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights.
AEPO-ARTIS is delighted to welcome MÜYORBİR, the Musical Performers Professional Association of Türkiye, as its 40th member. This addition to our growing community is an important milestone and strengthens AEPO-ARTIS’s...
AEPO-ARTIS published a manifesto providing the EU institutions with an instrument that points out the most important objectives that the EU must pursue over the next five years to create the fair digital environment needed to keep the European cultural sector viable for our performers.
Alongside various creator and rightholder organisations across the EU’s cultural and creative industries, AEPO-ARTIS, has co-signed a joint letter addressed to policymakers. The letter calls for fair remuneration for all rightholders, including performers. It reaffirms support for the objectives of the AI Act and urges policymakers to ensure the effective and meaningful implementation of a ‘healthy and sustainable licensing market’ that covers all equitable solutions, including a right to remuneration for recorded performances used for machine learning. Read the full letter.
On 24 and 25 October, AEPO-ARTIS – in collaboration with AZAS, AIPA and the North Macedonian IPO – organised a two-day regional conference in Skopje on “EU Enlargement and Copyright Law:...
The European and international organisations of authors and performers’ collective management organisations in the audiovisual, music, literary and visual arts – AEPO-ARTIS, BIEM, CISAC, EVA, IFRRO, GESAC and the SAA...
In a significant development concerning the Finnish cultural sector, AEPO-ARTIS expressed grave concerns over the Finnish government’s proposal to halve private copying remuneration.
With Hungary officially taking over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, AEPO-ARTIS has sent a letter to the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Read the full letter...
On May 16th, AEPO-ARTIS organised a seminar on the EU enlargement and the impact hereof on performer rights. With representatives from three different EC Departments, performer organisations from a.o. Türkiye, Serbia, North Macedonia and Georgia and over 65 participants, the seminar was a succesfull first step towards a strong future collaboration with performers and their organisations in the EU Candidate Member States.