FERA, FSE and UNI MEI hold first webinar of Collective Bargaining common project on the 2019 Copyright Directive transposition

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FERA, FSE and UNI-MEI held the first webinar of joint project “Strengthening Collective Bargaining for Audiovisual Creators” with 27 participants from 13 countries on March 10, 2022.

Focusing on the 2019 Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (CDSM) transposition state of play, the webinar was opened by FSE President Carolin Otto and followed by a general reminder of the CDSM Directive provisions on fair remuneration in authors’ and performers’ exploitation contracts and of the implementation process at national level by FERA CEO Pauline Durand-Vialle.

Experts and representatives of FERA and FSE’s networks participating then heard from Ula Furgal, Lecturer in Intellectual Property and Information Law and researcher at the University of Glasgow’s CREATe Centre, who presented an overview of the Directive’s transposition, underlining the modest engagement of Member States at this point and the fact that the digital dimension of authors’ and performers’ remuneration for the exploitation of their works was largely absent of national transpositions while interpretation on certain issues e.g. transparency could diverge significantly from one country to the next.

She also presented general orientations for the development of a comparative database of the CDSM Directive’s transposition in 10 Member states, one of the key deliverables of this FERA FSE UNI MEI joint project.

Participants then decided to set aside the exchange planned on the details of first national transpositions, to discuss instead the war triggered by the Russian invasion in Ukraine on February 24, its consequences for local audiovisual authors, performers and journalists, and ways to support them in these brutal circumstances.

 

With the support of the European Commission :