EUROPE FOR CREATORS LAUNCHES NEW MYTH BUSTING TOOLS ON ARTICLE 13
EUROPE FOR CREATORS is launching a new website and a newsletter, as part of a renewed effort to promote clarity around Article 13 of the European Copyright Directive.
The new tools set out facts. The website, www.article13.org (also available in Italian, German, Czech, French, Polish, Croatian and more to come) and the newsletter, INSIGHT 13, take a no-nonsense approach to the issue and go back to basics: What does the Directive actually say and how does the process work?
JOINT CALL FOR THE INTEGRATION OF CULTURAL AND CREATIVE SECTORS INTO HORIZON EUROPE
The following is a joint letter signed by 30 organisations from across the cultural and creative sectors, sent to EU member states’ research Ministries in the framework of the trilogue discussions on the EU’s future Horizon Europe programme:
RIGHTSHOLDERS UNITE IN CALLING FOR AN EFFECTIVE SOLUTION TO THE VALUE GAP
We are writing to you as a group of organisations representing European authors, composers, songwriters, featured artists, picture agencies, book publishers, academic publishers, audiovisual producers and broadcasters, independent and major music producers and publishers, and news and media companies.
IMPALA THANKS ALISON WENHAM FOR HER CONTRIBUTION TO WIN
Following the news that Alison Wenham is stepping down at WIN, we are making the following statement thanking Alison.
IMPALA ATTENDS “INDEPENDENT MUSIC DAY” ORGANISED BY ANPM, POLAND’S ALLIANCE OF INDEPENDENT MUSIC COMPANIES
IMPALA’s President Kees van Weijen took part in the “Independent Music Day” conference in Warsaw, organised by Poland’s newly established and fast-growing alliance of independent music companies, which already counts 35 members.
WINTEL 2018 ANNOUNCES NEW GLOBAL MARKET SHARE ANALYSIS OF THE INDEPENDENT MUSIC SECTOR
WINTEL 2018 is the third report produced for Worldwide Independent Network (WIN), mapping the global market share of the independent sector at copyright, rather than distribution level.
EUROPEAN INDEPENDENTS CONGRATULATE SUGAR MUSIC FOR BOCELLI’S SUCCESS
IMPALA, the European organisation of Independent music companies in Europe, congratulated Sugar Music and its team for the extraordinary achievement of a number 1 in the album charts at the same time in the USA and the UK with Andrea Bocelli’s “Si”.
JOINT MUSIC SECTOR STATEMENT: YOUTUBE’S FACT FREE FEAR-MONGERING
YouTube’s campaign against Article 13 of the Copyright Directive shows a lack of respect for the EU democratic process of law making. The revisions to the Directive have been under discussion for over four years already and the three main institutions of the European Union have all given their position.
HOW EU COPYRIGHT REFORM WILL GIVE THE CREATIVE ECOSYSTEM A BOOST
As things heat up again on the copyright directive, IMPALA’s Executive Chair Helen Smith speaks out. The Financial Times has given IMPALA the lead letter slot today to reply to YT’s CEO opinion piece posted in the FT earlier this week.
BOOSTING CREATIVE EUROPE – A JOINT CALL FROM 80 ORGANISATIONS
Dear Member of the European Parliament,
We are writing as a group of 80 organisations from across the cultural and creative sectors ahead of the plenary vote on the next EU MFF 2021-2027 on 14th November.