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EU | Status and working conditions

25.09.2023 Updated on 03.10.2023 Europe, Social dialogue, Social protection, Status of the artist

Report on the status and working conditions and artists in EUThe Open Method of Coordination (OMC) is a prac­ti­cal and struc­tured way to bring togeth­er rep­re­sen­ta­tives from EU Member States to encour­age the exchange of good prac­tices regard­ing the design of poli­cies and fund­ing schemes. The method fos­ters a com­mon under­stand­ing of issues and helps to build con­sen­sus on solu­tions and their implementation.

Through the OMC, experts who have been appoint­ed by Member States meet 5 to 6 times over 18 months to pro­duce pol­i­cy rec­om­men­da­tions, man­u­als and toolk­its shared through­out Europe. The Commission is respon­si­ble for organ­is­ing the OMC, host­ing most of its meet­ings, and sup­port­ing the work of the OMC groups with pol­i­cy updates, and input, such as studies. […]
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A New European Vision For Touring

20.07.2023 Cultural policies, Europe, Instruments on planes, Live performance, Touring, Travelling with instruments

New vision for touring - Logos of signatoriesAs Spain took over the Presidency of the Council a few weeks ago, with enabling cross-​border mobil­i­ty for artists addressed as part of its pro­gramme, pan-​European organ­i­sa­tions IAO, IMPALA, FIM, EMEE, Live DMA, Liveurope and EMMA rep­re­sent­ing alto­geth­er musi­cians and oth­er artists, inde­pen­dent labels, man­agers, music venues, clubs, fes­ti­vals as well as export offices join forces to call on EU Member States to launch a dia­logue with the sec­tor around the top­ic of mobil­i­ty as a vital com­po­nent of com­pet­i­tive­ness with­in the sec­tor. This ini­tia­tive address­es a gap cur­rent­ly not con­sid­ered by the EU and fol­lows the rec­om­men­da­tions by recent reports to fur­ther devel­op dis­cus­sions between the European insti­tu­tions as well as music and cul­tur­al organ­i­sa­tions (see for ref­er­ence the “One Voice for European Music” ini­tia­tive launched by the National Centre for Music in France). […]
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EU | Union representation for freelances

19.06.2023 Updated on 29.11.2023 Europe, Labour rights, Precarious work, Public policies, Social dialogue, Social protection, Status of the artist, Working relationship

FIM delegation at Madrid conferenceOn the 8 and 9 June 2023 the final con­fer­ence was held in Madrid for the European project (car­ried out by FIM, FIA, UNI-​MEI and EFJ) relat­ing to union organ­i­sa­tion and col­lec­tive bar­gain­ing for free­lances in the per­form­ing arts and media sec­tors. Hosted by Spanish cen­tral trades union bod­ies CC.OO. and UGT, the con­fer­ence was pre­ced­ed on 7 June by the final meet­ing of a legal work­ing group, bring­ing togeth­er, around the four fed­er­a­tions, uni­ver­si­ty aca­d­e­mics, researchers and lawyers spe­cial­is­ing in labour law and com­pe­ti­tion law.

The project is based on three pillars:

1. Union organ­i­sa­tion. Training activ­i­ties were pro­vid­ed by spe­cial­ists Becky Wright and Tara O’Dowd, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with mem­ber unions of the four fed­er­a­tions. […]
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Will Page, straw man of the music streaming industry

02.05.2023 Updated on 29.11.2023 Intellectual property, Online music

Will Page on ER1. On 16 March 2023, Will Page (for­mer Chief Economist at Spotify) deliv­ered a pre­sen­ta­tion at an infor­ma­tion ses­sion on the music stream­ing mar­ket, organ­ised by WIPO dur­ing the 43rd SCCR ses­sion. His pre­sen­ta­tion took place in a pan­el on the dis­tri­b­u­tion of stream­ing rev­enues under the title: Equitable Remuneration: Policy Options and their Unintended Consequences. Will Page does not jus­ti­fy putting “Equitable Remuneration” at the cen­tre of the debate. He just assumes that this is what the WIPO Member States want to discuss.

2. To begin with, the expres­sion Equitable Remuneration (ER) in the frame­work of cur­rent SCCR dis­cus­sions is mis­lead­ing. […]
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Streaming | Strong mobilisation of performers at WIPO

06.04.2023 Intellectual property, Online music

WIPO side-event 15 March 2023

The 43rd ses­sion of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights, which was held at WIPO (Geneva) from 13 to 17 March 2023, was an oppor­tu­ni­ty for strong mobil­i­sa­tion of FIM and its part­ners SCAPR, AEPO-​ARTIS and FILAIE.

Our aim was to obtain sup­port from a max­i­mum num­ber of Member States for the prin­ci­ple of fair remu­ner­a­tion of per­form­ers for the online use of their record­ings. We con­sid­er that this prin­ci­ple needs to be clar­i­fied and for­mal­ly set out in a WIPO Recommendation (or a com­pa­ra­ble soft law instrument).

In order to inform and raise aware­ness in gov­ern­ment del­e­ga­tions, on 15 March at 6 pm, we organ­ised a spe­cial event con­sist­ing of a pan­el dis­cus­sion and a Q&A ses­sion, fol­lowed by a cock­tail and con­cert of Hungarian musi­cians Berci Temesi and Friends. […]
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EU | Commission’s initiative to strengthen social dialogue

31.03.2023 Europe, Social dialogue

EU Commission logo

On 25 January 2023, the European Commission pre­sent­ed an ini­tia­tive aimed at strength­en­ing and pro­mot­ing social dia­logue at nation­al and European levels.

Recognizing that social part­ners are major play­ers in social change and cri­sis man­age­ment, the Commission is propos­ing a Recommendation of the Council to devel­op nation­al social dia­logue in Member States and a Communication aimed at pro­mot­ing the involve­ment of social part­ners at European lev­el.

FIM favourably wel­comes this ini­tia­tive. The European Commission intends to fos­ter the con­clu­sion of col­lec­tive agree­ments with European reach, in par­tic­u­lar by pro­vid­ing admin­is­tra­tive and legal sup­port. In addi­tion, it pro­pos­es the appoint­ment of a social dia­logue coor­di­na­tor in each DG to strength­en the role of social part­ners in shap­ing com­mu­ni­ty policies. […]
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⚠️ Vienna RSO in danger [campaign closed]

28.02.2023 Updated on 16.06.2023 Cultural policies, International solidarity, Orchestras

Vienna Radio Symphony OrchestraThe RSO Vienna is in dan­ger of being abol­ished by the ORF’s aus­ter­i­ty plans. It is an indis­pens­able sym­pho­ny orches­tra with­in the Austrian cul­tur­al scene, ded­i­cat­ed pri­mar­i­ly to the cul­ti­va­tion and per­for­mance of new music as well as lesser-​known works of the 19th and 20th cen­turies. Its exis­tence is of immense impor­tance to con­tem­po­rary Austrian composers.

As a high­ly esteemed and flex­i­ble orches­tra, the RSO Vienna is an inte­gral part of the con­cert and opera land­scape through­out Austria. Almost all con­certs of the RSO Vienna are broad­cast on Ö1 and are thus avail­able to all Austrians. The orches­tra is, there­fore, also an impor­tant part of pub­lic val­ue and ful­fils ORF’s edu­ca­tion­al mandate. […]
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Petition | Free Toomaj and Saman now!

16.12.2022 Freedom of expression, International solidarity

Free Toomaj and SamanOn the 30th of October 2022, the rap­per Toomaj Salehi was arrest­ed in Iran. His Kurdish col­league Saman Yasin has been in prison since the 2nd of Oct. and was sen­tenced to death in a bogus tri­al. They are both accused of “enmi­ty against God” (mohare­beh) and “gross cor­rup­tion” (ifsad fil-​arz). They are sub­ject­ed to tor­ture and maltreatment.

We call on the Islamic Republic of Iran to drop all charges against them and with­draw the death penal­ty in the case against Yasin.

Please sup­port Toomaj and Saman: sign the peti­tion now!

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