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Looking Forward in 2012

Jan 19. 2012
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BySylvie FodorCrucial developments are taking place in Europe and around the world. A look back at 2011 will help us to look foward in 2012.

The Internet is a great tool. It has however become increasingly difficult for creators to live from their creation in the Digital Age. This is particularly true for photographers. Boosted by new technologies, Microstock pursues its growth while traditional agents are merging, selling, closing. Legislation is adapting at high speed too. A number of legislative proposals at European and national level will affect the framework in which business is done: if not well-framed, they have the potential of further restricting the revenues of libraries and of their photographers.

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European Commission announces strategy on the Digital Single Market

Jan 19. 2012
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The European Commission announced this week its strategy to build trust in the Digital Single Market, stating, ...

.. “The development of electronic commerce and online services offers enormous potential for beneficial economic, social and societal change. The Internet economy creates 2.6 jobs for every "off-line" job lost, and offers a better choice to consumers, including those in rural and isolated areas. The gains brought by lower online prices and a wider choice of available products and services are estimated at EUR 11.7 billion, equivalent to 0.12 % of European GDP.

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CEPIC Agenda from September to November 2011

Nov 22. 2011
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Follow CEPIC's activities from September to November 2011

  • 29 and 30 November 2001: EIBTM Hosted Buyers Fair, Barcelona. Looking for Congress venues in 2013 and beyond ...
  • 05 and 06 November 2011: Microstock Conference, Berlin
  • 25 October 2011: ARROW PLUS Stakeholder Meeting 25 October 2011, organised by EVA, Ljubeljana
  • 21 - 23 October 2011: 16th paca international conference

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Events at the Frankfurt Bookfair 2011

Oct 05. 2011
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A number of events at the Frankfurt Bookfair will allow the picture business to stay in touch with the latest developments around the publishing market and the activity of trade associations.

  • Special Area for Picture Agencies

Following the Center for Photography in 2009 and 2010, a special area in Hall 3.1 will be devoted to images businesses. BVPA (Hall 3.1 A 105) invites every day at 17.00 H to a Happy Hour.

Magazine PICTORIAL has established a list of picture related businesses exhibiting at the Fair, mostly in Hall 3.1 but also in Hall 4.1 and 8.0.

  • Joint CEPIC/ EVA Stand

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Orphan Works: Proposal for a directive

Aug 16. 2011
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On Tuesday 24 May, the European Commission has adopted a Proposal for a Directive on certain permitted uses of orphan works with a view to establishing common rules on the digitisation and online display of so-called orphan works.

Orphan works are works like books, newspaper and magazine articles, and films that are still protected by copyright but whose authors are not known or cannot be located or contacted to obtain copyright permissions. Orphan works are part of the collections held by European libraries that might remain untouched if no common rules are developed to make their digitisation and online display legally possible. Common rules on how to deal with such works are therefore necessary in order to proceed with large-scale digitisation projects, such as the Commission’s Europeana portal.

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CEPIC Statement on Orphan Works directive proposal

Jul 18. 2011
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CEPIC 2011, Istanbul, Turkey. Day 3, Friday, May 20th, 2011. (CTK Photo/Petr Mlch)

BySylvie FodorThe EC proposal was rushed for publication together with other IPR documents. From a rightsholder perspective, it is in regress to the draft versions.

Stand- alone photography is excluded from the scope of the directive. But since most pictures make money because they are published somewhere and part of another work, this exclusion does not make away with the issue of photographic rights altogether. It does mean that the future directive would not apply to historical picture archives.

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ARROW PLUS technicalities

Jul 06. 2011
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ARROW a network of databases and a system enabling libraries to clear rights of "Works" they want to digitize.

ARROW PLUS builds on ARROW, extending the database network to the image field. EVA and CEPIC are only a small part of the ARROW PLUS project. Together, we will receive 5% of the total budget - involving for CEPIC a co-funding of 30.000 Euros.

"This is not underestimating the problem of images", said Piero Attanasio, ARROW project co-ordinator, "This on the contrary because we are aware that the image issue needs a project of its own."

In the next few months, we will concentrate fully on the work for ARROW PLUS.

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A Word from Microsoft

Jun 09. 2011
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Christina Vaughan (CEPIC President) and Tomas Jensen (Microsoft) at the Annual Industry Party in Istanbul. (c) CTK Photobank

ByTomas JensenWow – what a week it was here in Istanbul at the CEPIC Congress 2011! Microsoft is very grateful to have been able to support this year’s CEPIC gathering – an honor and a privilege.

Personally, I had the opportunity to meet with colleagues from the picture industry from all over Europe, from Japan, Canada and the United States. As different as individual topics were, my learnings were always the same: The picture industry is dynamic, vibrant and always re-innovating itself – something it definitely has in common with the IT industry. With new distribution channels and business models, all made possible with and through the internet, come a lot of challenges – but also opportunities inside and outside of the value chain within the photo industry as we know it today.

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Commission sets out "blueprint" for Intellectual Property Rights

May 31. 2011
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Intellectual property rights (IPR), which comprise patents, trademarks, designs and geographical indications, as well as copyright (authors' rights) and rights related to copyright (for performers, producers and broadcasters), have been around for centuries.

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Waiting for Godot

Mar 21. 2011
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BySylvie FodorSometimes I wonder if this is not an absurdist play we are in. It features many characters, several plots but there is no ending. The play bears the obscure title: "Orphan Works". (Are you sure you want to read this blog further?)

More than 5 years ago, in November 2006, I attended my first meeting on "orphan works". I did not know that it would be the first in a long series.

It was in New York, attended by several enthusiastic associations in the USA, all committed to finding a solution to the US pending Orphan Works legislation. The bill was blocked. Legislation is still pending.

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