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The talented actor, brilliant composer (David Bowie, The Carpenters, etc) and six-time Oscar nominee Paul Williams runs ASCAP, the biggest American authors’ society. He was in Paris when the recent Forum de Chaillot was held to bring creators and politicians together from all over the world to talk about the future of culture in Europe. And he agreed to meet with Magsacem to talk about authors’ rights.

Read the interview of Paul Williams

Croatian GESAC member HDS ZAMP has, in cooperation with several other Croatian IP rights’ management organizations, initiated and launched a wide national campaign ‘Creators make the world a better place’ aimed on raising public awareness of the importance of the creative work and the respect of creators’ rights. The campaign, under the patronage of Croatian State Intelectual Property Office, features numerous renowned creators from various artistic fields (composers, musicians, writers, photographers, directors, painters…) . They all contributed to the campaign with their statements on the creative work and its value in short films. Watch the 2-minute campaign film, available in Croatian language, with subtitles in English, French and Spanish.

Creators for Europe Campaign – UPDATE 

The petition will be closed on June 1st and be delivered to the European Commission.

European Commission is currently analysing the answers to its consultation on copyright and drafting a White Paper intending to give guidelines on the future policy of the EU on this crucial matter for creators.

An online campaign open to all cultural and creative sectors to make our voices better heard in this process was launched at the end of January by ECSA with support of GESAC. As of today the petition has been signed by more than 29 000 people from more than 22 countries  and from more than 9 different cultural sectors.

The petition is still online and active until 1^st June andwe kindly invite all of you to sign the petition and to spread this campaign further: http://www.creatorsforeurope.eu/en/

The initiative will end on 1 June and ECSA would then communicate the result of the campaign to the European Commission.

Your involvement is key for the success of the campaign and for the future of creators and cultural and creative industries in Europe.

Resale right enables authors to share in the subsequent resale of their works, and is a major source of information for artists to see how their career is progressing.

Extending resale right EU-wide through Directive 2001/84/EC has been largely beneficial for artists and had no negative impact on the art market.  Now that the art market is globalizing – China, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Japan, Russia or India have become key marketplaces – a global strategy is needed for this essential intellectual property right.

Together with CISAC and EVA, GESAC is now lobbying to make this right mandatory in all Berne Convention countries. More information in a brochure recently published by the three organisations.