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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.

Yesterday (10 April 2016) marked the deadline for the transposition into national law of the Directive on Collective Management of Copyright (2014/26/EU), adopted in February 2014. This Directive applies to all GESAC members—the authors’ societies—who manage the rights of around 1 million creators and rights holders in various artistic fields like music, visual and audiovisual arts, etc.