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The creators community is disappointed but trust a sound decision will finally prevail

05/07/2018 – Today in Strasbourg, the European Parliament voted on the long-discussed Copyright Directive and rejected the JURI mandate with a tight majority. The European Grouping of Societies of Authors and Composers (GESAC) sees this as a missed opportunity to fix the current unfairness in the digital market once and for all, despite almost 2 years of thorough discussions and overwhelming evidence presented. Europe’s creators nevertheless remain mobilised and hope that the European Parliament will eventually reach a positive solution in plenary based on facts and common sense.

Brussels – 13 December 2018 – GESAC welcomes the political agreement reached this morning at the trialogue meeting on the Broadcasting Directive (also known as the SatCab file).

The Council discussions have been long and at times quite difficult on many different issues. GESAC respectfully acknowledges all the efforts of those Member States that have tried to keep the main objective of this legislative initiative, that is to provide a better position for creators and the creative sector vis-à-vis the giant platforms. Such platform services grow at the expense of creators by knowingly and ruthlessly benefitting from the vagueness of the current law as regards their copyright-relevant acts.