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Brussels, 25/01/2016 –MEPs Therese Comodini Cachia and Virginie Rozière hosted an event today at the European Parliament with GESAC (the European Grouping of Societies of Authors and Composers), IFPI (the International Federation of Phonographic Industries), and supported by a wide spectrum of rights holders organisations. MEPs were invited to dialogue with the creative sector over the crucial issue of transfer of value / value gap and how it should be addressed within the copyright reform.

On 7 February, the Commission, the Council and the Parliament reached a deal over accessing subscription services while abroad.

On 18 February, the Executive Committee of ALAI*, an independent learned society dedicated to studying and discussing legal issues arising in connection with the protection of the interests of creative individuals, published a resolution that firmly endorses Articles 13, 14 and Recital 38 of the European Commission’s Copyright Directive proposal (COM(2016)593) of 14 September 2016.

22 March, 2017 – CISAC, the global organisation representing authors’ societies, and GESAC, the organisation representing European authors’ societies, are stepping up their efforts to help remedy the troubled royalty collection system in Greece.