Archive for February, 2012
On 22nd February we met Vice President Kroes of the European Commission who is in charge of everything digital there. We had a very distinguished group of screenwriters and directors with us – Robert Alberdignk Thijm, Fred Breinersdorfer, Bertrand Tavernier and Susanna White. Beforehand we held a short pre-meeting to prepare our key messages. A [ READ MORE ]
In a case opposing the scriptwriter/director of a documentary film, Mr Luksan, and the producer of the film, Mr van der Let, the European Court of Justice has given comfort to European scriptwriters and directors, clarifying their exploitation rights and their right to fair compensation for private copying in the films they create. The Judgement [ READ MORE ]
Last Friday I attended the very interesting Creators’ Conference (well done on organising that, ECSA). There were lots of very important points raised and I’m looking forward to ECSA posting those on the event’s website soon (Emmanuel Legrand’s blog already has a few). In the meantime I thought I’d pick up on a few very [ READ MORE ]
Yesterday I attended “Culture, An Added Value For Europe”, an event (excellently) organized by the European Coalitions for Cultural Diversity in collaboration with the European Platform on the Potential of Cultural and Creative Industries and moderated by Carole Tongue, former MEP. Given all the fuss that Megaupload, Sopa, Pipa and ACTA have caused (I’ll leave [ READ MORE ]
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