Brussels, 16 January – EUROPE FOR CREATORS is launching a new website and a newsletter, as part of a renewed effort to counter Google’s massive disinformation campaign around Article 13 of the European Copyright Directive.
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.
We have reviewed the European Commission text/non-papers on article 13 and we have serious concerns about the direction of travel.
On 11 December, a delegation of 13 authors from all over Europe and varying from popular YouTube videographer Florence Porcel to music legend Murray Head, all came to Strasbourg for a Meet the Authors event. They held a press conference with shadow rapporteur for the Copyright Directive Jean-Marie Cavada and spoke with Commissioner Mariya Gabriel, Vice-President of the EP Sylvie Guillaume, MEP Heinz becker, at an event kindly hosted by the co-chairs of the CCI Intergroup, MEPs Ehler and Berès.