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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.   

On the French Minister of Culture’s initiative took place on 4 and 5 April in Paris the Chaillot Forum – “Future of Culture, Future of Europe”, a day and a half of debates on the future of cultural policies in Europe, along with a meeting of the European culture ministers. 

Two documents results from this ministerial meeting:

1. – The conclusions drawn by the French Ministry of Culture: “Prospects for a 2014 – 2019 Strategy”
2. – Detailed proposals tabled by France: “Roadmap toward a European Strategy for the Digital Age”.

At the Council Meeting on Culture of 20-21 May, France made an emphasis on the Chaillot Forum and the principles agreed by the Ministers of 17 Member States and the Roadmap as a way to materialise the new Work Plan for Culture in Europe. This idea was supported by several Member States. 

Sweden-based music creators’ rights organization STIM appoints Mr. Karsten Dyhrberg Nielsen as CEO. Dyhrberg Nielsen is at present CEO of Nordic copyright management organization NCB, Nordisk Copyright Bureau, as well as its subsidiary NMP, Network of Music Partners.

STIM press release

At the initiative of GAM (The French Guild of Music Artists), five European coalitions of artists with the American CCC (Content Creators Coalition), met on 16 and 17 April in Metz, at the 14^th Rencontres européennes des artistes (REA) to define actions and common positions in order to meet the challenges of the digital music revolution. The meeting has led itself to the creation of a global organization – the World Artists’ Organization (WAO) – and to the adoption of a common charter draft.

Read GAM Press release

Read the common Charter