Platform of Cultural and Creative Industries

These platforms will give the culture civil society the opportunity to have a structured dialogue with the European Commission in two areas of focus, ‘Access to culture’ and ‘Cultural and creative industries’. EMO runs the secretariat with the support of Alliance Mondiale du Cinéma – Europe of the Cultural and creative industries area.

Early September and October will be the months of the two firsts working group meetings. A Plenary will be held in Brussels on the 11th of December, where all the different working groups will meet to discuss the proposals

The Recommendations will be targeted on a European, national and regional level; with new and innovative ideas showing a transversal approach. The Culture Forum in September 2009 will present these Recommendations.
Fonte: EMO

Comissão Europeia acaba com os monopólios territoriais das Sociedades de Direito de Autor

Uma das medidas importantes para o desenvolvimento do sector cultural era acabar com o excessivo controlo territorial realizado por cada sociedade de autores no seu próprio país e permitir a liberdade de escolha pela situação mais favorável:

Commission decides about music copyrights managers

Despite strong arguments against from the sector, the European Commission decided to ban certain copyright handling practices.

The Commission claims this move is in the interest of authors, who will be free to select Europe's cheapest and most efficient collecting society.

The commissioner also wants some territorial restrictions to be banned, notably those preventing collecting societies from offering licenses to commercial users outside their domestic territory. This practice brings with it burdensome administrative procedures for broadcasters, such as online or satellite media, which act at European level.

The decision applies immediately but does not involve the imposition of fines on the collecting societies it targets. They have now 120 days to inform the Commission about the implementation of the measures requested.

Fonte: Eurozine da European Music Office