Secretary General's Digest

I’m back after spending the summer touring family and friends in different regions of France, as usual. However, new was the devastating wildfires that I could observe from the smoke in the sky and th...

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Urša Menart • Director of Everything That's Wrong with You - "I wanted to explore how much we are willing to do just to have someone and to relate to someone"

We caught up with the Slovenian director to talk about her film, which stars Anuša Kodelja and Klara Kuk as two young women, each weird in her own way

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Collecting what authors are owed: CMOs share progress and struggles in Sarajevo

At a panel co-organised by the SAA and CineLink at the Sarajevo Film Festival, representatives from four collective management organisations compared notes on collecting and distributing royalties for...

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Will the EU protect audiovisual authors in the digital age?

Ahead of EU negotiations on the 2028-34 funding framework and AgoraEU, public money alone won't secure European audiovisual culture; it must come with rules guaranteeing fair remuneration, transparenc...

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Secretary General's Digest & Summer greetings!

Before switching off my computer and heading to the South of France for a long-awaited holiday with family and friends, I am sharing some of the key development onaudiovisual authors' rights that kept...

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Secretary General's Digest

Greetings from a sunny Brussels, remarkably hotter than Cannes, where I spent almost a week for the Cannes Film Festival, before heading on to Geneva for the biannual meeting of the Copyright committe...

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EU Public Affairs & Communication Traineeship

As a part of our small and dedicated team, you will have the opportunity to actively contribute to, and gain practical experience of, the European audiovisual landscape and the development of legislat...

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European Commission EVP Henna Virkkunen on Film Funding Overhaul and Paramount-WBD Merger: It ‘Might Have to Be Reviewed Under Several EU Regulatory Frameworks’ (EXCLUSIVE)

European Commission EVP Henna Virkkunen on film funding overhaul and Paramount-WBD merger.

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Open letter on MEDIA and European cinema

Cinema needs Europe, Europe needs cinema “No art form, like cinema, traverses our diurnal consciousness so directly as to touch our feelings, deep within the twilight chamber of our soul.” For more ...

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Scripting silence: how conformity shrinks art

In the words of Slovene artist Maja Smrekar: ‘[…] art holds the power to spark social change, and this is why it is so feared by the far-right.’ Artistic freedom is increasingly threatened and attacke...

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Secretary General's Digest

Some long-awaited meetings with the Commission finally took place in April. The authors who joined us were a reminder of why our work is so important. We collaborated with a broad MEDIA coalition to a...

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Joint statement: Safeguarding fair and predictable funding within AgoraEU

We, representatives of the European film and audiovisual sector and the press sector, welcome the European Commission’s ambition to strengthen support for culture, audiovisual, media and democratic va...

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Joint statement: Build AgoraEU on the success of the Creative Europe MEDIA programme

We, the European organisations representing the entire European film and audiovisual sector, would like to highlight the pivotal role played by the Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme, which is celebrat...

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SAA meets EU Commission EVP Virkkunen on AI, authors' rights and AV-policy

“I wrote my first feature film ‘Girl’ together with Lukas Dhont, 12 years ago. It took us three years of work for which I received €12,500. At the time, we both had second jobs to be able to pay our bills. The film started its career in Cannes. Thanks to my authors’ rights, I could develop my next project and afford a living. However, I’m one of the privileged ones compared to many colleagues who struggle in a precarious system.”  said Belgian screenwriter Angelo Tijssens. This real-life example set

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The role of CMOs beyond revenue collection: Reflections inspired by AG Szpunar’s opinion in case C-840/24

In a world where cultural diversity is increasingly central in the discussions around the future of the European Union and its place in the global power shifts, the Advocate General (AG) in the case C-840/24 (VG Wort) reminds us that collective management organisations (CMOs) represent one of the building blocks of cultural development for a democratic (and diverse) society, by giving the chance to potential authors to create and express themselves.

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Secretary General's Digest

As the Belgian weather shifts from blue skies and sunshine to hail, storms and rain, sometimes all in one day, so too does my work vary in its tasks. Not least in March, which took me from speaking in...

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From 1989 Television Without Frontiers to 2026 AVMS Directive

The AVMS Directive is under review. Stakeholders on all sides say the same thing: don't reopen it. But creators fear losing ground, while platforms fear gaining obligations. History suggests that volu...

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European Parliament backs authors on AI: FERA, FSE and SAA call on the Commission to act

The Federation of European Screen Directors, the Federation of Screenwriters in Europe and the Society of Audiovisual Authors, welcome today's adoption by the European Parliament in plenary of its res...

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Audiovisual authors deserve more than an opt-out that doesn't work

While Generative AI is reshaping the audiovisual sector rapidly, the rules governing how authors' works are used have not kept pace. European screenwriters and directors are having their livelihoods t...

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Secretary General's Digest

February has been one of those months where the calendar looked impossible and yet, somehow, everything got done. As a European association, it's that time of year when we are preparing for our annual...

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The European audiovisual market and authors' royalties

Valued at €141 billion, the European audiovisual media sector is one of the continent's most valuable cultural and economic assets. Yet non-European players dominate the streaming market, capturing 89...

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Secretary General's Digest

After a great winter break with my family in sunny South of France, I returned early January to Brussels and delved deep into the technical details of the implementation of the AI Act for two consulta...

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Meet our member: UFUS AFA Protection in Serbia

Serbia gave the world 'Who's Singin' Over There?', still regularly voted the country's greatest film over 40 years after its 1980 premiere. Its director Slobodan Šijan is among the many authors whose ...

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AZAS's fight for authors' rights in North Macedonia

North Macedonia, at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula with 1.8 million citizens, has an impressive cinematic track record. Milcho Manchevski's debut feature Before the Rain (1994) brought the country...

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A win! WIPO will study audiovisual authors' rights

At its 47th session that closed at the end of last week, the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) discussed and adopted the ...

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Secretary General's Digest

It's been a memorable November! First, I enjoyed a festive celebration with SAA members and guests in Brussels followed by a strategic gathering in Skopje that put the spotlight on authors' rights in ...

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SAA 15th Anniversary Conference and Networking: Audiovisual authors' rights in disruptive times

Interviews and key moments from SAA 15th Anniversary Conference, where creators, experts, and industry representatives discussed AI, copyright, and the future of…

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