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).
In Belgium, a Royal Decree on the resale right published in June called for the creation of a one‑stop shop for the management of resale right.
To this end, GESAC’s Belgian member SABAM has developed a digital platform, in consultation with SOFAM, designed to be an easy, complete and quick tool to consult resales of copyrighted artworks.
This platform is an important step forward for all players in the art market. Rights holders get an overview of the resale of their works while professionals in the art market have an easy way to declare their sales.
To check out the e-RR platform (electronic Resale Right), visit www.resaleright.be.
The Customer Contact Management Association (CCMA) rewarded Wim van Limpt, manager Member Service Department at Buma/Stemra, with the Dutch Custom Contact Manager Award 2015. Van Limpt received the Award from Simone van den Berge, board member of CCMA during their MatchQ CC Manager Award 2015 in the Aviodome auditorium in Lelystad.
Wim, who scored a 90% on employee satisfaction acts on his conviction that “staff make a difference and they are the true capital of a company” accroding to the members of the jury. Over 50 Contact Center Managers were nominated for this prize, which awards inspiring leadership, excellent customer relations and passionate drive for innovation. The election of CC Manager of the year followed the ECCS certification for the Members Service Department of Buma/Stemra earlier this year. In 2014, Buma/Stemra was the first society to be rewarded with the ECCS certification; the European quality standard for customer contact departments.
Find out more here (in Dutch).
On 18 September, SGAE held a day of debates in Madrid to discuss the many questions that arise from the European Commission’s strategy on copyright.
Participating in this event were artists like the Spanish film director Inés París and British composer Crispin Hunt. Also present was GESAC’s General Manager Véronique Desbrosses, who emphasized the weight and importance of the creative and cultural industries in Europe. She insisted on the need to urgently address the transfer of value taking place online with intermediaries refusing to fairly remunerate the creators of the content they make available to the public. Echoing the growing concern among authors in Europe, SGAE’s president, José Luis Acosta deplored that “never in history has so much cultural content been consumed and have authors received so little for their work”.
DG Connect’s Director General Gerard de Graaf said it was “essential for the law to be balanced in order for everyone to benefit from the digital market” and that creators would know more about the coming legislation by the end of this year.
The event was attended by over 100 people, including MEPs Paloma López and José Blanco.
More about the event here (in Spanish).