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The President of the European Parliament, David Sassoli, was enthusiastically supportive of culture and the creative industries when speaking to attendees of Meet the Authors on 25 September.

The event, organised by MEP Christian Ehler and GESAC, was held in support of the re-establishment of the Cultural and Creative Industries Intergroup.

President Sassoli declared: “Creative freedom is naturally coupled with the freedom of expression and the freedom of culture and Europe strongly supports creativity and creative industries through some of its programs. I have no doubts that this will be confirmed by the Parliament”.

See below to watch President Sassoli’s speech in its entirety.

GESAC and 11 other creators organisations have issued a statement to address the aggressive action undertaken by Digital Europe, in the name of device manufacturers like Apple, Huawei and Samsung.

Today, our member and authors’ society PRS for Music announced it would be setting up a joint venture together with PPL, a UK music licensing company which works on behalf of record companies and performers to license recorded music played in public and broadcast.

The joint venture will further streamline customer experience and is expected to start licensing in 2017.

Read the full press release here.