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November 17, 2020

View the AEPO-ARTIS Webinar: Performers and performers’ rights: How can we create a sustainable creative eco-system in Europe?

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...

November 17, 2020

AEPO-ARTIS Online Seminar Concludes That Member States Must Rebalance The Streaming Market In Favour Of Performers By Introducing Unwaivable Remuneration Rights

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...

November 17, 2020

AEPO-ARTIS Webinar - Performers and performers' rights: How can we create a sustainable creative eco-system in Europe?

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?”...

October 8, 2020

European Parliament’s CCFG call to ensure an effective implementation of article 18 EU Copyright Directive guaranteeing the fair remuneration of performers for the use of their work on streaming services

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...

September 30, 2020

Professor Raquel Xalabarder encourages Member States to introduce an unwaivable remuneration right

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...

September 23, 2020

Music Authors And Perfomers Strongly Denounce Epidemic Sound’s Malpractices And Its Profound Disrespect For Their Rights

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....

September 17, 2020

Open Letter to the European Parliament: Performers call on MEPs to ensure that their efforts to guarantee fair remuneration, including from online exploitation, are not “lost in transposition”

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...

September 8, 2020

AEPO-ARTIS contribution to the Targeted Consultation on the stakeholder dialogue on Article 17 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market

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...

August 13, 2020

AEPO-ARTIS submits response to the European Commission’s Roadmap consultation on an “Intellectual Property Action Plan”

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...

July 14, 2020

A call to invest in all our creative futures

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...