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Creators from all over Europe – including composers, songwriters, filmmakers, poets and visual artists – will be at the forefront of debates concerning the future of Europe’s creative and cultural sector at the inaugural Meet The Authors forum on September 24th.

The invite-only event, which aims to introduce key European policy-makers first-hand to the diversity of Europe’s creative sector, will involve an afternoon of high-level debates before an evening reception with a performance by the acclaimed pan-European pop-rock band Puggy.

MusicMark, a rights management platform comprised of North American performing rights societies ASCAP (USA), BMI (USA) and SOCAN (Canada), and Armonia, a platform comprised of European societies Artisjus (Hungary), SABAM (Belgium), SACEM (France and Luxembourg), SGAE (Spain), SIAE (Italy) and SPA (Portugal), have engaged in a dialogue to identify ways to collaborate.

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Sacem (Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music) today announced that it has signed an agreement with Netflix for France, prior to the start of the subscription video on demand (SVOD) service in September.

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La Sacem signe un accord avec Netflix… par SACEM

GESAC (European Grouping of Societies of Authors and Composers), ECSA (European Composers and Songwriters Alliance), and the Representation of the Free State of Bavaria to the EU have the pleasure of inviting you to “Meet the Authors” on Wednesday September 24th.

The creative and cultural industries are Europe’s ‘hidden economic secret’ – providing more than 8m jobs and accounting for an impressive 4.5% of European GDP.

In the current climate, it is essential that European policy-makers can recognise this success and ensure that culture and creativity remain at the heart of the region’s economy – fuelling growth, enriching the lives of citizens and providing conditions for the next generation of creative talent to thrive.