Creative Europe
On the occation of the Public Hearing on the Creative Europe Programme in the European Parliament, FERA has released a summary of its position.
An End to Buyout Contracts!
FSE and SAA, representing film directors and screenwriters’ professional associations and their collecting societies, issued a joint statement to call for an end to buyout contracts that deprive audiovisual authors of fair remuneration for the works they create.
Upcoming Event
FERA’s 2012 General Assembly will be held in Copenhagen on 8-10 June hosted by Danish Film Directors.
Petition!
FERA, together with other creators’ organisations, has started a public campaign against unfair contractual practices facing creators. Knowing that this is a common problem facing many of us – sign the petition!
Publication
A set of Directors’ Contract Guidelines that highlights a director’s creative and economic rights, and the problem of ‘buyout contracts’ that oblige many European directors to give away their secondary (re-use) rights to financiers without any royalty payments.
Recent Event
On 20 February, FERA member l’ARP co-hosted the inaugural session of the “The Cinéastes Invite a European Friend” in Paris at their Cinema des Cinéastes. Norwegian director Joachim Trier was present at the screening of his second feature film Oslo, 31. August.
We in Silicon Valley undermined copyright to make commerce become more about services instead of content — more about our code instead of their files. We haven’t just weakened Hollywood and old-fashioned publishers. We’ve weakened ourselves.
Jaron Lanier
Over the past months I have been travelling to meet FERA members in Greece, Hungary and Portugal. I wanted to see and hear first hand what it is like to be a filmmaker in the countries that struggle the most right now.
On the eve of EU leaders arriving in Brussels for the euro crisis summit, ICT executives feasted on oysters and champagne, a spectacle that, at least in American politics, goes under the label of being “out of touch”.