EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS
European Parliament: The European Parliament’s Committee on Culture and Education (CULT) published amendments to the proposal for a directive on audiovisual media services. More about this at this link .
European Commission: The European Commission has chosen a consortium to organize a series of dialogues at major music conferences in Europe and two conferences that will take place under the auspices of the EU institutions. The aim of the conferences is to strengthen and structure the dialogue about music within the framework of the Music Moves Europe initiative. More about this at this link .
Swedish EU Presidency : Sweden, which holds the EU Council Presidency, has announced a calendar of events to address the challenges currently facing Europe’s cultural and creative sector. On February 16 and 17, there will be a conference on the topic of Artistic freedom and the cultural and creative sector in the EU. On May 15 and 16, there will be a meeting of the Council for Education, Youth, Culture and Sports. More about this at this link .
INDUSTRY:
European Audiovisual Observatory: The 100 largest players in the European audiovisual market are growing twice as fast as the market. Last year, the most revenues were generated by the American Comcast and Netflix, 17.15 billion euros or 7.5 billion euros. More about this at this link .
StephenFollows: Comment on Do movies directed by female directors have more women in the cast? More about this at this link .
AEPO-ARTIS: The Association of European Performing Organizations (AEPO-ARTIS) has addressed an open letter to the Swedish Presidency of the EU, calling on Sweden to encourage all EU member states to legislate the right to compensation, which is also provided for in the Copyright and Related Rights Directive in the digital single market. Many countries have implemented the directive, but have not legislated these rights for audiovisual creators. More about this at this link .
EBU: Commentary on the topic Are big technology companies interfering with media content. More about this at this link .
EBU: The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has sent a letter to European decision-makers proposing that the EU protect and promote the independence of the media and journalists, ensure access to European citizens to media services of general interest and regulate global online platforms in a way that does not will interfere with media content. More about this at this link .
DigitalEurope: Twenty leading organizations in the field of artificial intelligence have joined the ARISA (Artificial Intelligence Skills Alliance) project, with which they want to speed up the development and training of everyone who works in this field or. are interested in this field. More about this at this link .
Cineuropa: Investments in audiovisual content will decrease by two percent this year, according to the analysis company Ampera. As they point out, this is the biggest drop in investments in the last decade, if we exclude the period of the covid-19 pandemic. More about this at this link .
Variety: French streaming platform Salto, which started operating two years ago, is said to be going out of business. Namely, the platform failed to secure a sufficient number of subscribers to cover operating costs. More about this at this link .
Euroactiv: Civil society was excluded from the process of drafting the first international treaty on artificial intelligence. The reason for this was the insistence of the United States that the positions of the signatory countries should not be made public before the signing of the treaty. More about this at this link .
FilmNewEurope: Polish cinemas sold 40 million tickets last year, which is much less than in the years before the covid-19 pandemic. 56.5 million tickets were sold in 2017, 59.7 million in 2018, and 61 million in 2019. More about this at this link .
LEGAL MATTERS
Managing IP: Getty Images, which owns the stock photo database, is suing the owner of image generators Stable Diffusio. The company sued for copyright infringement. Stable Diffusio is powered by artificial intelligence, so this is the first lawsuit in history against an artificial intelligence system. More about this at this link .
Kluwer Copyright Blog: A blog about if the media freedom act violates copyright law in some parts. More about this at this link .
UPCOMING I EVENTS
The Swedish Presidency of the EU invites you to a conference on the topic of Artistic freedom and the cultural and creative sector in the EU . The conference will be held on February 16 and 17 in the Swedish city of Umeå. It is expected that viewing will also be possible online. More about this at this link .
CultureActionEurope: European institutions will organize a decision-making conference with representatives of the European cultural and creative sector on February 28. The invitation will follow. More about this at this link .