PICSEL becomes member of Copyright Licensing Agency
On the 6th of March, CLA welcomed two new members : DACS and PICSEL !
Issues
Closing the “Framing loophole”: presentation at the European Parliament
Brussel, 28th february 2017. CEPIC is furtheron seeking to close the so-called “framing loophole“. The Conference “Right to Digital Value” organized by EVA on 28 February 2016 at the European Parliament provided another opportunity to push the issue in the awareness of MEPs and their understanding. This was an excellent conference on the issues of transfer … Continued
Open letter to Google by German Association of Picture Agencies
BVPA’s open letter to Google against its new image search format in Germany
RDI report now published
Here is the final report of the Rights Data Integration.
Google’s new format in Germany too …
Three formats of Google Images used to be presented: one available in Germany, one in France and one in the rest of the world. Well now the “new” version has reached Germany.
Response to Copyright Office on Group Registration of Photographs
DMLA together with various other visual arts associations filed a joint response to a proposed rulemaking by the Copyright Office on Group Registration of Photographs.
The proposal seeks to establish new online registration procedures for groups of unpublished as well as published photographs. The proposal was quite in-depth, including an extensive history of group registration of photographs regulations and the requirements for a new proposed system. In general the coalition was in favor of improving the electronic registration process for registration of all photographs, but had some recommendations for the Copyright Office on as to how to improve the proposed system.
Antitrust: Commission opens three investigations into suspected anticompetitive practices in e-commerce
Last week The European Commission has launched three separate investigations to assess if certain online sales practices prevent consumers from enjoying cross-border choice.
More specifically, they are looking into whether these companies are breaking EU competition rules by unfairly restricting retail prices or by excluding customers from certain offers because of their nationality or location.
Geo-blocking: CULT committee calls for policy makers to protect Europe’s cultural diversity
Today the CULT committee adopted MEP Therese Cachia Comodini’s opinion report on the European Commission proposal for a Regulation on Geo-blocking.
Resolution adopted by the IFRRO Annual General Meeting on 2 November 2016
The International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (IFRRO), at its Annual General Meeting in Amsterdam, agreed on the need to urge the European legislator to address the legal uncertainty caused by the recent rulings of the ECJ on links and application of framing and embedding technology for displays and reuse of protected works already made available on the world-wide-web.
European Parliament: Public Hearing on the “Value Gap”
We want to share pictures, we want pictures to be shown, we want to produce pictures. For this we need to be paid for. There is no reason why the picture industry should be left behind by the legislator.
