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Streaming: help us change the game!

Published on July 15, 2015 by FIM

Filed under: Intellectual property, Online music

Whilst music streaming businesses develop at a quick pace, performers are still not rewarded fairly – if at all – when their performances are exploited online.

Together with three other international organisations (AEPO-ARTIS, FIA and IAO), FIM is involved in the Fair Internet campaign, which is asking for the introduction in EU law of a fair and equitable remuneration to be paid to performers every time their performances are used online.

This campaign needs your support. Here is what you are requested to do
– Sign the campaign petition and share it on social networks.
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Air Canada wins FIM Airline of Choice Award 2017

Published on May 12, 2017 by FIM

Filed under: Unfiled

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On 11 May 2017, the International Federation of Musicians (FIM), which represents professional musicians and their trade unions in more than 60 countries, awarded the newly created FIM Airline of Choice award to Air Canada. The ceremony took place during the opening evening of the 4th FIM International Orchestra Conference hosted in Montreal by the Quebec Musicians Guild (GMMQ – local 406 of the AFM).

FIM and its member unions have been campaigning for several years with the aim of improving airlines’ policies so that musicians traveling with their instrument are treated fairly and are fully informed about regulations governing the transportation of musical instruments.
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4th International Orchestra Conference (IOC)

Published on March 14, 2017 by FIM

Filed under: IOC, Orchestras

For the first time since 2008, the International Orchestra Conference will be taking place in North America, (Montreal), at the invitation of GMMQ (local section 406 of AFM) and under the patronage of Quebec orchestra conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin. As in the previous three editions, the choice of speakers from the five continents will reflect the widest geographical diversity.

Since the first IOC edition, FIM has aimed at fostering dialogue and exchanges between musicians and directors, with a view to opening up relationships.
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ETUC initiates a process of reflection on new forms of employment

Published on March 7, 2017 by FIM

Filed under: Europe, Fundamental rights, Working relationship

ETUC has invited FIM and other sectoral federations to join a European project aimed at better defining the “new forms of employment” and “atypical jobs” that are booming across Europe. The notion of “new form of employment” is not in fact really appropriate since short-term employment, for multiple users or in the form of a “self-employed” working relationship has existed for a long time in numerous sectors, including that of the arts, performing arts and media. This is why FIM, FIA and UNI-MEI are associated with this this project.
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Spain | Conference on musicians’ professional ailments

Published on March 2, 2017 by FIM

Filed under: Health and Safety

1st Spanish Congress on Musicians Professional Ailments, organised by AMPOS, AEOS and TECMA Arte | Alzira (Valencia), Spain, 11-12 March 2017

Programme

11 March
– Dr Joaquín Nieto Sainz | Director for Spain, ILO
– Dr Montserrat García Gómez | Head of Labour Health, Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality.
Towards a recognition of the musicians’ professional ailments?
– Dr Manuel Alberto Mendoza Sariego | Medical coordinator, TECMA clinic.
Raising awareness about the importance of Medicine for the Arts amongst public administration, medical professionals and professional musicians.
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EU | Parliament wants a real European social pillar

Published on January 27, 2017 by FIM

Filed under: Europe, Fundamental rights, Working relationship

On 19 January 2017, the European Parliament adopted a Resolution on the European Social Pillar, calling on the European Commission to make proposals for designing a European pillar of social rights that goes beyond a simple declaration of principle and has a real impact on the lives of citizens. Parliament is urging the Commission to put an end to a double-standard system which only leads it to enact vague principles in favour of a social Europe, whereas the measures it adopts in favour of competition and the free market are always concrete and coercive.
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EU | Consultation on a European pillar of social rights

Published on January 9, 2017 by FIM

Filed under: Europe, Labour rights, Public policies

FIM, FIA and UNI-MEI have submitted a joint reply to the European Commission’s consultation on the European Pillar of Social Rights (the consultation ended on 31 December 2016).

This contribution (in English), which includes elements of reply drafted by ETUC, also addresses in detail aspects that are specific to our sector, basing itself in particular on work carried out within the scope of the European project on atypical workers which was concluded in September 2016.
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Gambia | MUSIGAM asks outgoing president Yahya Jammeh to leave office

Published on January 9, 2017 by FIM

Filed under: Africa

The Musicians’ Union of Gambia (MUSIGAM) –a FIM member– and the Gambia Association of Music Producers and Promotors (GAMPP) have issued a joint press release calling on outgoing president Yahya Jammeh to reconsider his decision to reject the result of the elections held on 2 December 2016. The two organisations fear that not respecting the verdict of the poll will spark off disturbances and violence.

To begin with, Mr Jammeh recognized his defeat, after twenty-two years of office, and congratulated his opponent, Mr Adama Barrow.
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