Streaming: help us change the game!
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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The FIM-Pearle* hands-on guide to CITES is now available
FIM and Pearle* are publishing a guide which tells you all you need to know (or practically) on administrative obligations linked to the implementation of CITES
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) imposes a certain number of obligations on those travelling with an object which, wholly or partially, comes from a protected animal or plant species. Musical instruments containing ivory, ebony, rosewood or a species belonging to the Dalbergiae family are concerned by these measures.
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Streaming: pro-rata vs user-centric distribution models
First published on the SML website
More for few or fewer for more – The results of a comparative study on pro rata and user centric distribution models
Currently, the money goes to the most listened tracks instead of being allocated in accordance with the consumer’s choices
The study commissioned by Finnish music organizations explored the differences between the pro rata model favoring the most listened tracks and being in use in streaming services, and the alternative user centric model based on individual consumer’s choices.
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EU | Rights of self-employed workers
A workshop organised by ETUC is considering solutions for restrictions imposed on self-employed workers by national competition authorities
In Amsterdam, on 14 February 2018, the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) organised its third thematic workshop on self-employed workers, with the active help of EAEA. The meeting focused on self-employed workers who, in a certain number of countries, are deprived of the benefit of collective agreements as a result of competition law.
The workshop brought together representatives of union confederations from all over Europe, jurists and specialists from the International Labour Organization and the Council of Europe.
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Guatemala | FIM Seminar for Central America and the Caribbean
By Ananay Aguilar
On 19 – 21 December 2017, FIM held a sub-regional seminar in Guatemala City for musicians’ unions in Central America and the Caribbean in the framework of a regional project funded by Swedish organisation Union To Union, with support from SMF. The event brought together representatives from Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panamá and Dominican Republic. The local group, organised by Gilmar Mejía from Musicartes, consisted of enthusiastic leaders drawn from the whole country for a new musicians’ union, in addition to representatives to other, already established, music organisations.
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Africa | Sub-regional workshop on gender equality
This FIM meeting focusing on gender equality brought together union representatives from eleven English-speaking African countries
From 20 to 22 November 2017 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, FIM and the Tanzanian Urban Musicians’ Association (TUMA) organised an exchange and training workshop on gender equality in the music sector, which had financial backing from Union to Union. This was the second African meeting after a first workshop in Dakar in January 2016. The meeting took place in the presence and with the active support of Union to Union and SMF representatives.
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Indonesia | Creation of the first musicians’ union
During a FIM national workshop co-organized with PAPPRI, a collective of Indonesian musicians undertook to form a union within the next six months
During a first national workshop held in Jakarta in June 2006, FIM met representatives of several national performer organisations. With the help of FIM representatives, specialists in international standards in the labour field (ILO) and copyright (WIPO), the meeting addressed the whole array of their concerns over three days and led to the conclusion that only a union organisation would have the ability to see that the rights of this professional category were recognized, defended and promoted.
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Cuba | FIM workshop for musicians
By Ananay Aguilar
On 31 Oct.-2 Nov. 2017, FIM organised its first event in Cuba since its 17th Congress, held in Havana in 2001. This training workshop was hosted by UNEAC (Union de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba), in the framework of a regional project funded by Swedish organisation Union To Union, with support from SMF.
The FIM team consisted of Déborah Cheyne (FIM Vice President), John Acosta (President of AFM Local 47 – Los Angeles), Benoît Machuel (FIM General Secretary) and Ananay Aguilar (FIM Regional Coordinator for Latin America).
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Europe | EAEA’s reply to the Commission’s consultation
EAEA has set out its proposals for efficiently implementing the initiative of the European Pillar of Social Rights, with particular regard to atypical work
On 3 November 2017, EAEA answered the two questions posed by the European Commission in the second phase of consultation of social partners on a possible review of the “written statement” directive (91/553/EEC), within the scope of its initiative on a European Pillar of Social Rights.
The points raised by EAEA correspond to concerns also expressed by UNI-Europa and ETUC regarding the need to provide more serious guarantees for so-called “atypical” workers, including those who exercise their activity in a non-salaried context, not subject to national labour legislation.
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