| 5/4/2009: France: the fight against Internet piracy continues | |
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Beginning of April the French Parliament surprisingly rejected a draft bill against Internet piracy supported by President Nicolas Sarkozy and the Conservative Party. The bill required the disconnecti...... Read Announcement... |
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| 4/27/2009: Towards a better recognition of artists’ work in Europe | |
| Last week the European Parliament plenary voted in favour of a proposal for a Directive to extend the term of protection for performers’ rights and sound recordings and to introduce complementary meas...... Read Announcement... |
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| 3/30/2009: Compromise to extend musicians’ copyright failed in Brussels | |
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The Czech presidency’s compromise proposal to extend the protection of musicians’ rights to 70 instead of 95 years failed at the EU Council last Friday. Over a year ago the European Commission came up...... Read Announcement... |
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| 2/16/2009: Spotify – tomorrow’s music portal? | |
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The Swedish enterprise Spotify has developed a streaming programme giving access to millions of music titles of the four Majors, Universal, Sony BMG, EMI and Warner, as well as numerous independent la...... Read Announcement... |
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| 1/27/2009: Professional associations of German authors and publisher consider steps against Google Book Search | |
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The Association of German writers, the German literary collecting society and the Association of German Authors and Publishers are considering a law suit against Google's "Book Search" programme. Star...... Read Announcement... |
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| 1/19/2009: Happy New Year to arts and culture | |
| During his visit to Nîmes last week French president Nicolas Sarkozy addressed his best wishes for the New Year to the arts and cultural world. He pointed out his hope to see the National Assembly pas...... Read Announcement... |
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| 1/9/2009: French cinema at its zenith | |
| According to recently published data by the Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC) 188.8 million admissions were registered in French cinemas in 2008, 6.2% more than the year before. Especially F...... Read Announcement... |
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| 12/23/2008: US music industry changes strategy | |
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In its fight against illegal filesharing the US music industry intends to step away from the thousands of complaints against individuals and follow the French model and cooperate with Internet provide...... Read Announcement... |
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| 12/12/2008: 4th Summit on Arts and Culture 2009 to take place in South Africa | |
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The 4th international Summit on Arts and Culture, hosted by the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA) in collaboration with the Arts Council of South Africa, will tak...... Read Announcement... |
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| 12/5/2008: Europeana – Europe’s digital library | |
| Europe has been busy building up its digital library Europeana since summer 2006. In March 2007 a first version was put online during the Paris Book Fair Salon du Livre. On this occasion the French Na...... Read Announcement... |
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| 11/17/2008: Portugal sees historic agreement on music rights | |
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Passmusica, the agency that represents the rights of artists, interpreters and producers in Portugal and the Portuguese restaurant and hotel sectors have signed an historic agreement for the payment o...... Read Announcement... |
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| 7/25/2008: European Union – Towards a better recognition of performing artists? | |
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On July 17th the European Commission adopted a proposal aimed at extending the duration of protection on music recordings for performers and record producers to 95 years.
The Association of Europea...... Read Announcement... |
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| 7/21/2008: Cultural industry wants intellectual property to be part of Ibero-American sumits | |
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According to the 2nd Ibero-American Forum on Intellectual Property (FIPI) representatives, in Ibero-America the activities protected by copyright sum up 4,2% of the GDP and represent 3% of the employm...... Read Announcement... |
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| 4/28/2008: European Parliament rejects Internet bans for copyright abusers | |
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In a Resolution on Culture Industries in Europe, the European Parliament voted against cutting off copyright abusers from internet access. Measures like the "three-strikes-approach" to disconnect user...... Read Announcement... |
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| 4/28/2008: German Bundestag adopts new law on the protection of intellectual property | |
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On 11 April 2008 the German Bundestag adopted the government draft for a law on the improved protection of intellectual property rights in its second and third reading. The opposition parties voted ag...... Read Announcement... |
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