On 24-25 April, AEPO-ARTIS attended a two day conference entitled the “Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on Copyright, Media and Creative Sectors” organised by the Polish Ministry of Culture, under the auspices of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
On 28 March, a joint statement signed by a broad coalition of organisations from the creative sector was published to express opposition to the third draft of the European Union's General-Purpose AI (GPAI) Code of Practice.
The 2025 Spotify Loud and Clear report has been published and as with previous years it is full of BIG numbers and lots of dollar signs, such as those in...
On Tuesday, 11th March, French performer societies SPEDIDAM and ADAMI have jointly announced that they are exercising the right to opt-out of the exception that allows AI developers to train...
In reaction to a pending proposal to cut private copy remunerations with 90% in the Czech Republic, AEPO-ARTIS, EVA, GESAC, IFFRO and SAA have addressed Czech Minister of Culture Martin Braxa with a call to support the Czech and European Cultural and Creative Sector.
Last week, the Commission published its Work Programme 2025. Somewhere hidden in the initiatives on “Supporting people, strengthening our societies and our social model”, the Commission makes it its goal...
Brussels, 17 February 2025 Dear Executive Vice-President Virkkunen, Dear Commissioner Micallef, The AI Office is currently tasked with the critical responsibility of successfully finalising the ‘General-Purpose AI Code of Practice’...
Having regard to the Recommendation of the OECD Council on Artificial Intelligence, dated 3 May 2024, in particular its Principles for a Responsible Approach in Support of Trustworthy AI, including...
With start of Poland’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union, AEPO-ARTIS sent an open letter to Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, highlighting the importance of culture and calling...
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...
On October 16, a webinar entitled “Recently Introduced Rights for Artists” took place, organised by IAO, AEPO-ARTIS and the author of the Streams and Dreams (part 2) report, Daniel Johansson.
On Thursday September 26th, the Belgian Constitutional Courtpublished its ruling in the case in which Google, META, Spotify, Streamz and several record labels introduced different requests for annulment of the remuneration rights for...
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...
A new report entitled Streams & Dreams Part 2 – The Impact of the DSM Directive on EU Artists and Musicians, written by the independent music business researcher Daniel Johansson (Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences) and published on June 13th, proves the ineffectiveness of the DSM Directive.
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.
From 15th to 19th April, Geneva was the setting for WIPO’s 45th Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights. AEPO-ARTIS was present with a small delegation, spoke with multiple country...
On Monday 8th and Tuesday 9th of April representatives from all corners of the copyright-driven sectors gathered in Namur (Belgium) for the Belgian Copyright Conference that focused on: “The Action...
On 17 January, the European Parliament plenary adopted the report of MEP Ibán García del Blanco on “Cultural diversity and the conditions for authors in the European music streaming market”.
With start of the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, AEPO-ARTIS has addressed an open letter to the Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo with the aim of emphasizing the importance of culture and promoting the improvement of performers' rights, in accordance with the priorities during this presidency involving cultural and creative sectors.
In an Open Letter on A.I. from creators to policy makers, Global Creators and Performers Demand Creative Rights in AI Proliferation.
With start of the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, and the priority of social and economic justice, AEPO-ARTIS has addressed an open letter to the Spanish President Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón.
The AEPO-ARTIS conference ‘Four Years of the Copyright Directive’ brings different stakeholders from the creative industries to the table for the first time.
On Thursday, 25th of May, AEPO-ARTIS is holding a conference “FOUR YEARS OF THE COPYRIGHT DIRECTIVE”.
A fascinating study written by Daniel Johansson of the Inland Norway University of Applied Science entitled “Revenue Distribution From Music Streaming – A Quantitative Analysis of Swedish Artists on Spotify”...
Although streaming is nowadays the main way of accessing music, performing artist sare not being fairly paid for their work. On May 2nd – at the opening of the International...
Join us online on 2nd May at 16:15 CET for a panel discussion where we will discuss why streaming isn't working for artists and more.
A presentation on different models introducing Equitable Remuneration (ER) by Will Page at WIPO 43rd SCCR was criticised by many. With the accompanying 14-page report now published, the criticism proves to be justified.
Last week, from 13th until 17th of March, the 43rd WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) took place, with once more a lot of time given to...
On 15 February 2023, exactly 1400 days after the adoption of the 2019 Copyright directive, the European Commission has referred 6 countries to the European Court of Justice for failing...
With start of the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union this month, and committing to ‘bring culture to the fore’, AEPO-ARTIS wrote an open letter to the...
We have published the new Performers’ Rights Study Update 2022 recently – check out how it was at the launch event!
The Performers’ Rights Study Update 2022 was just published and presented by AEPO-ARTIS, the Association of European Performers’ Organisations. The study was first published in 2007 and with this 4th update, AEPO-ARTIS provides a...
Earlier this week, the Committee on Economic Affairs of the Slovenian Parliament approved the draft law implementing the CDSM directive 2019/790, bringing the total amount of countries that have completed...
On 15 September a study commissioned by IAO entitled “Streams & Dreams – A Fair Music Economy for All” was published, recommending the introduction of a right to equitable remuneration...
On September 8th 2022, the Court of Justice of the European Union issued its ruling in the case between the Federation of the Spanish Digital Industry sector (AMETIC) and Ventanilla...
On July 20th, Commissioner Thierry Breton, responded to a Parliamentary Question that was tabled in March 2022 by the Cultural and Creators Friendship Group (CCFG). The question concerning article 18...
With Czech Republic taking over presidency of the European Union, AEPO-ARTIS wrote an open letter to the Czech President with the goal to draw attention to the important issue of...
‘Everyone wants Ukraine to win and is determined to fight until the end whatever is their battlefield’ Even four months after the invasion of Ukraine started, unfortunately the war in...
Today – 16 June 2022 – the Belgium Parliament completed the implementation of the so-called Copyright directive (2019/790). As one of the 13 remaining countries that were running late in...
Today, June 7th, 2022, is a big day for performers’ rights. It is explicitly stated in the new Copyright Directive that as of today, for all new contracts, performers and...
Danish Musician’s Union delivered signatures of 4500 artists supporting the #Fixstreaming campaign to the Danish Minister of Culture Ane Halsboe-Jørgensen, asking for a fair remuneration of Danish artists in the...
Ljubljana, 26 May The European audiovisual industry needs modern legislation that will reflect the rapid development of digital technologies on the market, agreed participants of a regional conference on copyright....
Performers warn Member States against rapid implementation of the Copyright Directive On May 19th, the European Commission has taken the next step in the infringement procedure of the so-called Copyright...
With Poland being one of the main countries where Ukrainian refugees found their safety running away from the war, our Polish members STOART and SAWP decided to help – free...
On the 2022 World Intellectual Property Day, the Court of Justice of the European Union issued its ruling on the case against Article 17 of the Copyright Directive (C-401/19). Poland...
It has been over a month since the invasion of Ukraine started, leaving the world shaken and in disbelief, changing it forever. Over ten million people left their homes in...
A few days ago, several members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Culture and Education met with performers and their representatives from across Europe to discuss the fact that —...
As part of the official programme of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union, representatives from a wide range of artistic disciplines gathered on Friday 4th March...
AEPO-ARTIS fully condemns the current acts of war committed on Ukrainian territory and calls upon the leaders of this world to stop this immediately. “Within the AEPO-ARTIS community we work...
Almost three years after the adoption of the Copyright Directive, less than 50% of Member States have transposed it, leaving performers in the dark as to the right on a...
AEPO-ARTIS co-signs the Film/AV sector DSA Trilogue Statement Film/AV sector regrets that the European Parliament missed the opportunity to make the Internet a safer space for everyone. The undersigned organisations...
With France taking over presidency of the European Union and the ambitious programme that President Emmanuel Macron has presented to the Parliament in Strasbourg, AEPO-ARTIS wrote an open letter to...
AEPO-ARTIS has officially become a member of “WIPO for Creators”, a global community initiated by WIPO and the Sweden based Music Rights Awareness Foundation. With the core aim to raise...
With the upcoming plenary vote, the European Parliament can still turn the DSA into an opportunity for the EU to play a global role in making the internet a safer...
Worldwide COVID-19 has hit the cultural industries hard. Very hard. However, collective management succeeded in limiting the impact for performers. A survey that AEPO-ARTIS and SCAPR conducted among their members...
As part of a broad coalition of 24 creative and cultural organisations, AEPO-ARTIS co-signed the following statement to express the sector’s concerns over the Council’s general approach on the Digital...
The UK Parliament published today a Private Member’s Bill from Kevin Brennan MP entitled “Copyright (Rights and Remuneration of Musicians, Etc.) Bill” available here. The bill proposes the introduction for...
On 26 October, AEPO-ARTIS co-signed a letter with 24 other rightholder organisations (including FIA, FIM, IAO…) addressed to key interlocutors at the European Commission and European Parliament regarding ongoing discussions...
Today, the European Parliament’s Committee on Culture and Education (CULT) published its opinion on the Commission’s Intellectual Property Action Plan to support the EU’s recovery and resilience. The driving force...
On 31 August, a report by the CMU (Complete Music Update) was published entitled “Performer Payments from Streaming”. The report addresses the minimal extent (if any) to which performers share...
AEPO-ARTIS is looking for a part-time Communications and Social Media Officer to join its team. AEPO-ARTIS is a non-profit making organisation that represents 36 European performers’ collective management organisations from...
La nouvelle video avec des sous-titres en français est disponible ici: https://vimeo.com/543120344
AEPO-ARTIS has published an animation summarising why performers’ remuneration rights and their collective management are important: https://vimeo.com/5060198 (et disponible avec des sous-titres en français ici: https://vimeo.com/543120344 )
A warm thank you to all of you who participated in the AEPO-ARTIS and SAA event yesterday (supported by the European Parliament’s Cultural Creators Friendship Group): Collective management: A safety...
On 17 March 2021, European collective management organisations and their members came together to discuss how to secure fair remuneration for performers and audiovisual authors. 12 European performers, screenwriters and...
INVITATION: Collective management: A safety net for authors and performers 17 March 2021, 11:00-12:30 (CET) What do collective management organisations do and why are they important for authors and performers?...
AEPO-ARTIS is proud to present together with GESAC – authorsocieties.eu #rebuildingeurope: The cultural and creative economy before and after the #COVID19 crisis. What was their economic situation before the COVID-19...
Members of the Cultural Creators Friendship Group (CCFG) in the European Parliament released yesterday a video in support of the implementation of article 18 of the 2019 Copyright Directive calling...
On 17 November, AEPO-ARTIS held its annual (remote) seminar on performers and performers’ rights. This year’s seminar focused in particular on the implementation of article 18 of the 2019 Copyright...
AEPO-ARTIS ONLINE SEMINAR CONCLUDES THAT MEMBER STATES MUST REBALANCE THE STREAMING MARKET IN FAVOUR OF PERFORMERS BY INTRODUCING UNWAIVABLE REMUNERATION RIGHTS BRUSSELS, 17 November 2020: AEPO-ARTIS put performers’ rights at...
AEPO-ARTIS Webinar 2020 On 17 November, AEPO-ARTIS shall host a free webinar on the subject of “Performers and performers’ rights: How can we create a sustainable creative eco-system in Europe?”...
AEPO-ARTIS co-signs Letter To The European Commission On Behalf Of Europe’s Cultural And Creative Sectors: Dear President von der Leyen,Vice-President Schinas,Commissioners Hahn, Gabriel, Breton, Culture has always been a vibrant...
Performers’ organisations welcome European Parliament’s CCFG call to the European Commission and Member States to ensure an effective implementation of article 18 EU Copyright Directive guaranteeing the fair remuneration of...
Joint Statement of Organisations representing Authors, Performers, Publishers and Creative workers at EU levelSome of the world’s biggest consumer device manufacturers are aggressively targeting the Visegrad Four countries in an...
Professor Raquel Xalabarder of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, recently published an article entitled “The Principle Of Appropriate And Proportionate Remuneration Of Art.18 Digital Single Market Directive: Some Thoughts For...
The Association of European Performers’ Organisations (AEPO-ARTIS), the European Composer and Songwriter Alliance (ECSA), and the International Federation of Musicians (FIM) collectively represent over 500 000 composers, songwriters and performers....
In 2019 after long negotiations, the EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market was adopted. Article 18 of this Directive obliges Member States to ensure that authors and...
On 8 September, AEPO-ARTIS submitted its Contribution to the European Commission consultation on the Digital Services Act package. Background: The Commission announced a proposal for a Digital Services Act package...
On 8 September, AEPO-ARTIS submitted its contribution to the Targeted Consultation addressed to the participants to the stakeholder dialogue on Article 17 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital...
On 10 July, the Commission launched a “roadmap” consultation as part of its initiative to prepare an intellectual property action plan. This action plan will set out the Commission’s vision...
European culture is in the midst of a crisis. How decision-makers choose to respond now will set the scene for the next decade of cultural and creative life in our...
Investing in Europe’s next generation by investing in culture As the EU has started discussing the proposed recovery plan, 94 organisations from across Europe’s cultural and creative sectors are uniting...
Exchanging with Commissioner Gabriel today, AEPO-ARTIS, FIA, FIM and IAO shared with her what they consider the European Commission’s key priorities should be in order to strengthen performers’ protection and...
Europe’s cultural and creative sectors call for ambitious EU budgetary measures to get through the COVID-19 crisis Time to put words into action! Europe’s cultural and creative sectors were among...
The Joint Film and Audiovisual Sector statement regarding the COVID-19 pandemic co-signed by AEPO-ARTIS on 7 April continues to gather further signatories. As at 23 April, the total number of...
The Joint Film and Audiovisual Sector statement regarding the COVID-19 pandemic co-signed by AEPO-ARTIS on 7 April has gathered further signatories. As at 16 April, the total number of signatories...
Music is one of the first sectors hit by the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis. It will also be one of the last. As borders close, venues as well as festivals suspend...
The film and audiovisual sector in Europe calls for urgent action by EU and Member State decision-makers to safeguard the future of the sector in the wake of the COVID-19...
Dear President von der Leyen,Dear Commissioner Gabriel, The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all countries in Europe, and it is already evident that performers have been heavily impacted with film and...
AEPO-ARTIS Seminar “Post Copyright Directive: What performers’ rights protection in the future?” On 10 December 2019, the Association of European Performers’ Organisations, AEPO-ARTIS, held its annual seminar dedicated to a...
AEPO-ARTIS joined a group of 90 organisations from across Europe’s cultural and creative sectors in writing to the President of the European Council and Member States representatives, ahead of the...
THE FAIR INTERNET COALITION WELCOMES THE ADOPTION OF THE COPYRIGHT DIRECTIVE AS A FIRST, IMPORTANT STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION IN IMPROVING PERFORMERS’ RIGHTS Brussels, 26 March 2019 I The...
The FAIR INTERNET coalition representing over 500,000 musicians, singers, actors, dancers and other performing artists urges members of the European Parliament to give their final approval in plenary to the...
Brussels, 18 February 2019, The FAIR INTERNET coalition representing over 500,000 musicians, singers, actors, dancers and other performing artists urges the Council and the Parliament to give their final approval...
Brussels, 18 February 2019, The FAIR INTERNET coalition representing over 500,000 musicians, singers, actors, dancers and other performing artists urges the Council and the Parliament to give their final approval...