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Here’s an update on just a few of the many award schemes organised by authors’ societies across Europe, one of the many types of activities devised to reward fresh, exceptional creators and nurture up-and-coming talent.

The Floodliners, a pop punk band from South East London, has fended off stiff competition to be crowned songwriting and composition winners of The Next Brit Thing – an award for the brightest, most original British music talent.

Partnerships with industry are an important part of authors’ societies’ work, a crucial means of ensuring their members are paid for the enjoyment they bring worldwide. Many of the partnerships struck by authors’ societies are with household names like YouTube, Sony and RARA.com. Here’s a bit more about these agreements and how they work.

The video-sharing platform You Tube has taken the world by storm, and it’s easy to see why. It gives music lovers the chance to watch clips of their favourite artists – and discover new ones – at the click of a mouse.

And that’s fantastic progress for cultural diversity – provided authors benefit from it too.

On 5 March, CISAC and the Research Centre for the Legal System of Intellectual Property (RCLIP) of Waseda University co-hosted a symposium on the visual artist’s resale right.

A letter co-signed by GESAC, CISAC and EVA was sent to the European Commission requesting support for promoting the worldwide recognition of visual artists’ resale right.