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Help save the Danish National Chamber Orchestra! [Update]

06.10.2014 Updated on 13.05.2018 Cultural policies, Europe, International solidarity, Orchestras, Public policies, Public services

The Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DBC) has announced that it will shut down the Danish National Chamber Orchestra (DNCO) on the 1st of January due to bud­get cuts. The DNCO employs approx. 45 musi­cians as well as the artis­tic team work­ing with them. Apart from the evi­dent dis­as­ter of the musi­cians los­ing their jobs, the loss of the DNCO would be cat­a­stroph­ic for Denmark’s cul­tur­al life — there sim­ply is no oth­er orches­tra that could lift the DNCO’s 75-​year-​long cul­tur­al her­itage with the same skill, diver­si­ty and beauty.

Apparently, it takes a budget-​meeting and three months to shut down an orches­tra, but it has tak­en 75 years to build a part of Denmark’s cul­tur­al her­itage. […]
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Equitable remuneration | Italy forced to comply with European legislation

26.09.2014 Europe, Intellectual property, Public policies

Current Italian leg­is­la­tion (decree of the President of the Council of 1 September 1975, arti­cle 1) pro­vides, in the absence of agree­ment between par­ties, for the amount of equi­table remu­ner­a­tion due by users to per­form­ers and phono­gram pro­duc­ers to be lim­it­ed to 2% of turnover attrib­uted to use of music.

This lim­i­ta­tion, which, in real­i­ty, caps the amount col­lect­ed from users, leads to col­lec­tions that are way below the European average.

A first com­plaint filed by FIM and IFPI to the European Commission (DG MARKT) in 2008 was unsuc­cess­ful. Consequently, anoth­er joint com­plaint was filed in 2013 and led the Commission to require Italian leg­is­la­tion to com­ply. […]
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The AEC website opens a section dedicated to musical entrepreneurship

24.09.2014 Updated on 14.05.2018 Europe, Music education

Polifonia project

On 19 and 20 September 2014, the Hague was the venue for the con­clud­ing con­fer­ence of the 4th work­ing group in the Polifonia project.

Steered by the European Association of Conservatoires (AEC), this project began in 2004 and will be com­plet­ed at the end of 2014. As a part­ner, FIM is rep­re­sent­ed in the 4th work­ing group (musi­cal entre­pre­neur­ship) by Hans Ole Rian, President of Norwegian union MFO.

The Hague con­fer­ence brought togeth­er play­ers from the music edu­ca­tion world to analyse the chal­lenges fac­ing young artists, against a back­drop of grad­ual dis­en­gage­ment of pub­lic author­i­ties from financ­ing cul­tur­al insti­tu­tions. […]
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European survey on performers’ contracts and income: take part until 30 Sept.

03.09.2014 Updated on 14.05.2018 Cultural policies, Europe

Europe Economics and the Institute for Information Law of the University of Amsterdam have been com­mis­sioned by the EU Commission to under­take a sur­vey on the remu­ner­a­tion of authors and per­form­ers in 10 EU Member States.

The ten coun­tries sur­veyed are Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Spain and the United Kingdom.

Performers from the coun­tries list­ed above are warm­ly encour­aged to par­tic­i­pate in the online con­sul­ta­tion, which should not take more than 15 – 20 min­utes. The sur­vey is expect­ed to pro­vide up-​to-​date back­ground mate­r­i­al for future EU policies.

Participants are kind­ly request­ed to respond UNTIL SEPTEMBER 30th. […]
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Framework of Action on Gender Equality

On the 27 October 2011, the European sec­to­r­i­al social dia­logue com­mit­tee for the Audiovisual field adopt­ed a frame­work of action on gen­der equal­i­ty, rep­re­sent­ing a suc­cess­ful out­come to two years of nego­ti­a­tion between social partners.

The agree­ment aims to improve the sit­u­a­tion in the sec­tor in the fol­low­ing areas:
 — Gender rep­re­sen­ta­tion
 — Gender role at work
 — Wage equal­i­ty
 — Decision-​making equal­i­ty
 — Balance between career and home

EAEA and EFJ mobilized in Paris to remind political decision-​makers of the importance of the arts, culture and media

15.04.2014 Updated on 05.03.2016 Cultural policies, Europe

On the ini­tia­tive of the French Minister for Culture, Aurélie Filippetti, the Chaillot Forum held on the 4 and 5 April in Paris brought togeth­er some 15 European Ministers of Culture. Also present were Irina Bokova (Director-​General of UNESCO), Martin Schultz (President of the European Parliament), European Commissioners Michel Barnier (Internal Market) and Androulla Vassiliou (Education and Culture), a cer­tain num­ber of well-​known artists and rep­re­sen­ta­tives of cul­tur­al and dig­i­tal econ­o­my sectors.

Debates addressed issues of fund­ing cul­ture, intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty and cre­ation, from points of view as wide-​ranging as cul­tur­al diver­si­ty or taxation.

Making a sur­prise appear­ance, President François Hollande remind­ed par­tic­i­pants that cul­ture was not an unnec­es­sary expense but rep­re­sent­ed an oppor­tu­ni­ty for the European econ­o­my and a source of employ­ment and activ­i­ty. […]
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The European performing arts sectoral social dialogue committee demands the maintenance of the unemployment insurance scheme for intermittent workers in the live performance sector in France

25.03.2014 Updated on 23.03.2022 Cultural policies, Europe, Public policies

SDAMP demonstration

At its meet­ing on 17 March 2014 in Brussels, the com­mit­tee adopt­ed a motion of sup­port for the unem­ploy­ment insur­ance scheme for per­form­ing artists and tech­ni­cians in France, there­by answer­ing French employ­er organ­i­sa­tions (MEDEF and CGPME) which have indi­cat­ed that they wish to bring an end to this scheme. Such ques­tion­ing would have seri­ous con­se­quences on the per­form­ing arts and audio­vi­su­al sec­tors and all those who work in them.

Motion of the European Sectoral Social Dialogue Committee of the Live Performance sector:

In France, per­form­ing artists and tech­ni­cians in their capac­i­ty as employ­ees, enjoy an unem­ploy­ment insur­ance scheme like work­ers in oth­er fields. This sys­tem has been adapt­ed to take into account speci­fici­ties of their employ­ment con­di­tions, notably char­ac­ter­ized by short-​term con­tracts and the tem­po­rary nature of cer­tain jobs. […]
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EU | Parliament adopts regulation facilitating the transport of musical instruments in cabins

08.02.2014 Updated on 15.10.2016 Europe, Instruments on planes

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On the 5 February 2014, the European Parliament adopt­ed the text review­ing com­mu­ni­ty reg­u­la­tion 2027/​97, cer­tain pro­vi­sions of which aim to facil­i­tate the trans­port of musi­cal instru­ments on planes as hand luggage.

FIM is delight­ed that its long-​haul work, led with the sup­port of Pearle*, suc­ces­sive­ly met with atten­tive atti­tudes on the part of the European Commission, the sup­port of the Parliament’s Committee for Transport and Tourism and the back­ing of an over­whelm­ing major­i­ty of MPs dur­ing the ple­nary ses­sion vote on the 5 February.

The 580 votes for the text (41 against, 48 absten­tions) give it con­sid­er­able legit­i­ma­cy. Despite this, the work of explain­ing and per­suad­ing must, how­ev­er, con­tin­ue at Council lev­el, where reser­va­tions have been expressed. […]
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