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Fair Internet coalition meets with Commissioner Gabriel

10.06.2020 Updated on 22.03.2022 Collective management, Europe, Intellectual property, Online music, Press releases

Commissioner Mariya Gabriel

Press release I BRUSSELS, 9 June 2020

Exchanging with Commissioner Gabriel today, AEPO-​ARTIS, FIA, FIM and IAO shared with her what they con­sid­er the European Commission’s key pri­or­i­ties should be in order to strength­en per­form­ers’ pro­tec­tion and enable them to envis­age ful­fill­ing pro­fes­sion­al careers.

AEPO-​ARTIS, FIA, FIM and IAO wel­come that the European Commission recog­nised the impact of the COVID-​19 pan­dem­ic on the cul­tur­al and cre­ative sec­tor in its recent EU recov­ery plan. In this regard, it is absolute­ly essen­tial that the EU can pro­vide per­form­ers with appro­pri­ate short- and mid-​term sup­port, finan­cial and otherwise.

However, the pan­dem­ic again illus­trates that the cur­rent leg­isla­tive frame­work does not suf­fi­cient­ly pro­tect per­form­ers in the dig­i­tal envi­ron­ment. […]
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Ivory Coast | SAMCI rounds off its training cycle

03.07.2019 Africa, Collective management, Gender equality, Intellectual property, International trade union co-operation

SAMCI workshop attendance

FIM and the Musicians’ Union of the Ivory Coast (SAMCI) organ­ised a third nation­al work­shop in Abidjan from 17 to 20 June 2019, with­in the scope of a 3‑year union train­ing cycle backed by Union to Union. Opened and closed by “diva” Aicha Koné, the work­shop was divid­ed up into three parts:
1. Internal organ­i­sa­tion;
2. Intellectual prop­er­ty rights and col­lec­tive man­age­ment;
3. Gender equal­i­ty, in part­ner­ship with LeadAfricaines, a spe­cial­ized Abidjan-​based NGO.

SAMCI has made sev­er­al changes over the past year. The General Assembly of December 2018 reviewed and clar­i­fied its Rules, smoothed out dis­putes and brought new per­son­al­i­ties to the fore dur­ing elec­tions. […]
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EU | The directive on copyright adopted by the Parliament

01.04.2019 Updated on 06.04.2023 Collective management, Europe, Intellectual property, Press releases

Votes count for copyright directive

Adopted on 26 March 2019, the direc­tive on copy­right in the dig­i­tal sin­gle mar­ket opens up the way for a fair remu­ner­a­tion of performers.

With its part­ners from the Fair Internet coali­tion, FIM has been work­ing relent­less­ly and con­tin­u­ous­ly for four years now to pro­mote per­form­ers’ inter­ests with mem­bers of the European Parliament, the Commission and the Council.

Our pri­or­i­ty aim was to intro­duce a remu­ner­a­tion mech­a­nism enabling all per­form­ers to receive a fair share of the rev­enue gen­er­at­ed online by the exploita­tion of their record­ings, includ­ing after the trans­fer of their exclu­sive rights.

The pro­vi­sions con­cern­ing per­form­ers in the text adopt­ed on 26 March 2019 were obtained at the cost of extreme­ly intense advo­ca­cy work, in an often hos­tile envi­ron­ment. […]
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EU | Fair Internet campaign event

08.12.2016 Updated on 22.03.2022 Collective management, Europe, Intellectual property

The Henryson Duet

5 December 2016, Brussels | Performers call on European leg­is­la­tors to ensure fair treat­ment of per­form­ers in the dig­i­tal world

Key rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the FAIR INTERNET cam­paign, which rep­re­sent over 500,000 musi­cians, singers, actors and dancers in Europe, gath­ered on Dec. 5th for their year­ly event in Brussels to take stock of the Commission’s draft Directive on Copyright with European Commission offi­cials, Members of the European Parliament and Member States’ representatives.

The fair remu­ner­a­tion of per­form­ers from on-​demand ser­vices (iTunes, Netflix, Spotify, …) was at the heart of the dis­cus­sion with unan­i­mous sup­port from per­form­ers for the European Parliament and the Member States to make key changes to the cur­rent draft Directive. […]
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The Fair Internet campaign reaches Asia

19.02.2016 Updated on 13.05.2018 Asia, Collective management, Intellectual property, Online music

Tokyo Conference

On 16 and 17 December 2015 in Tokyo, Japan host­ed the 2nd FIM con­fer­ence on online music, organ­ised in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Musicians’ Union of Japan MUJ and with the sup­port of CPRA-​Geidankyo.

Introduced by FIM President John Smith, MUJ President Takeshi Shinohara and MZTSZ President Lázsló Gyimesi, the con­fer­ence opened on a keynote from Ambassador Seiichi Kondo. It was run by twen­ty or so speak­ers and mod­er­a­tors from var­i­ous coun­tries rep­re­sent­ing the music sec­tor and the uni­ver­si­ty world.

Mr. Kazuhiro Ando, asso­ciate pro­fes­sor at Toyo University, sharply crit­i­cised the eco­nom­ic mod­els of dig­i­tal dis­tri­b­u­tion for their unfair char­ac­ter where per­form­ers were con­cerned, under­lin­ing that “phys­i­cal and dig­i­tal modes of dis­tri­b­u­tion have dif­fer­ent cost struc­tures which are not reflect­ed by roy­al­ty lev­els”. […]
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Senegal | SODAV at last authorised to operate

10.02.2016 Updated on 05.05.2018 Africa, Collective management, Intellectual property

Angèle Diabang | SODAV President

On 4 February 2016, Mr. Macky Sall, President of the Republic of Senegal, signed the autho­riza­tion enabling the Senegalese copy­right and relat­ed rights soci­ety (SODAV) to replace the Bureau séné­galais du droit d’auteur (BSDA) [Senegalese copy­right bureau], in line with the law of 25 January 2008.

As ear­ly as 2008, this law made pro­vi­sion for the BSDA –an organ­i­sa­tion under the author­i­ty of the Ministry of Culture– to be replaced by a civ­il soci­ety con­trolled by artists, but it was not until 9 April 2015 that the imple­ment­ing decree was enact­ed. Rightholders –in par­tic­u­lar, AMS rep­re­sen­ta­tives (a Senegalese FIM mem­ber)– had to fight for more than sev­en years for it to be imple­ment­ed. […]
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Cameroon | An intolerable attack against the musicians’ union (SYCAMU)

16.09.2015 Updated on 13.05.2018 Africa, Collective management, Fundamental rights, Labour rights

Alert

On 22 July 2015, Cameroon’s Prime Minister, Mr. Philémon Yang, ordered the Minister of Labour to impose a ban on the musi­cians’ union (SYCAMU). He reproached SYCAMU with being in breach of its own rules by organ­is­ing a meet­ing con­cern­ing the cre­ation of a new col­lec­tive man­age­ment organ­i­sa­tion, since the cur­rent one (SOCAM) has ceased operating.

This arbi­trary deci­sion is unac­cept­able. Not only don’t the grounds invoked stand up to any seri­ous exam­i­na­tion for one sec­ond, but also the con­se­quences of this deci­sion are extreme­ly seri­ous, since Cameroon musi­cians are de fac­to deprived of the free­dom of asso­ci­a­tion guar­an­teed by the con­sti­tu­tion and inter­na­tion­al order. […]
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FIM President John Smith announced as new Chairman of PPL

20.08.2015 Updated on 23.03.2022 Collective management, Europe, Federation's life

John Smith, FIM President

John Smith, General Secretary of the Musicians’ Union (MU) and President of FIM, will suc­ceed Fran Nevrkla OBE as Chairman of PPL (which is a part-​time posi­tion) on 1 January 2016. Fran Nevrkla will retire at the end of 2015 fol­low­ing 15 years with the company.

With a career span­ning 40 years in the music indus­try, John has worked with PPL for many years. In 2006 he was a key play­er in achiev­ing the suc­cess­ful merg­er of PAMRA (Performing Artists’ Media Rights Association) and AURA (Association of United Recording Artists) into PPL to form one of the world’s most suc­cess­ful and effi­cient Collective Management Organisations (CMOs). He cur­rent­ly serves as a Director on the PPL Board and PPL Performer Board. […]
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