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Last week, creative industries in the UK, together with the UK government, released the first TV ad in its education and TV advertising campaign that aims to promote the value of creativity and urges consumers to “keep it #genuine”.

The initiative Is called “Get it Right” and encourages respect for the value of creativity in the UK and boosts consumer awareness and use of the wide range of legal sources of content available to them.

Find out more here.

This week, UNI MEI is hosting its General Assembly in Lisbon, Portugal. Discussions and motions will focus on how unions & guilds in the media and entertainment industries can represent and protect workers in the digital economy responding to the technological, economic and social changes. GESAC is present at this General Assembly and our General Manager Véronique Desbrosses will be speaking about better rules for a fair digital market.

UNI Global Union represents more than 20 million workers from over 900 trade unions in the skills and services sectors. UNI MEI represents its members in the Media and Entertainment Industries.

Find out more here.

On 12 October, Polaris Nordic, the alliance that represents Koda, Teosto and TONO, migrated its repertoire to ICE (International Copyright Enterprise) Services AB. With this change, Polaris Nordic will now have access to the broad international musical repertoire of ICE, which will improve the flow of royalties to their songwriters, composers and publishers.

Read the full press release from ICE Services AB here.

At the end of September, Sacem reached the 100 000 online registered works mark, since its service was first started in February 2014. That’s an average of 5 300 works registered every month. Sacem’s online registration service is quick, safe and simple to use, and enables its members to register their work at any time of day or night. In fact, some 22% of works were registered between 8pm and 4am!

Read the full article here (in French).