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May 14. 2013
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ByVéronique Martingay-NaujoksIt is essential that CEPIC attends all of these meetings to be at the forefront of information regarding technological and legal advances. Knowing better their applications within the framework of the European Union means having a stronger position in defending the interests of CEPIC members.

Véronique Martingay-Naujoks from La Collection gives her view on "Licenses for Europe":

Within the framework of "Licenses for Europe", I participated on April 19 in the European Commission in Brussels (Work Group 1/subgroup “Print”): Cross-border portability of services offering online access to online content for print. At this meeting I found two particularly interesting interventions in the context of the picture industry:

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BVPA rejects ancillary copyright law - Google Lex – Inadequate approach to pictures

Mar 25. 2013
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By the end of this week a plenary session of the German Federal Parliament (“Bundesrat”) will decide on an ancillary copyright law for news publishers (“Leistungsschutzrecht” in German).

This will be one last opportunity to stop the controversial law approved on 1st March by the majority of the black-yellow coalition.

The German National Association of Press Picture Agencies and Picture Archives (BVPA) strongly disapprove of the law for not adequately taking into account visual content on press articles.

Pictures are essential features of press products

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IPTC: Machine Readable Rights day documentation available

Mar 20. 2013
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Last week the Machine Readable Rights and the News Industry day took place in Amsterdam. CEPIC was also there. Now you can download most of the presentations and slides that summerize the event.

Here you can watch the presentations on video.

A summary of the event is available here.

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Strong Growth in Demand for Intellectual Property Rights in 2012

Mar 19. 2013
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International filings for patents, trademarks and industrial designs under WIPO-administered intellectual property (IP) systems saw continued strong growth in 2012.

In 2012, international patent applications filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) grew by 6.6% on 2011.1 Japan and the United States of America (US) accounted for 48.8% of the 194,400 PCT applications filed in 2012 (Annex 1 Annex 1)2. Chinese telecommunications company ZTE, with its 3,906 published PCT applications, was the largest filer in 2012.3

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The European Commission launches the initiative "Licensing Europe"

Dec 07. 2012
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On December 6th 2012 and following the weekly college meeting of EU commissioners, Michel Barnier spoke at the at the IP Forum set up by MEP Marielle Gallo. He introduced "Licensing Europe" to start in 2013.

On Wednesday December 5th, the College of the EU Commission debated on the future of intellectual property and copyright and whether the 2001 European Copyright Directive should be re-opened for negotiations with, notably, the inclusion of new exceptions to copyright. (Press release here)

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Support Urgent Call to Action from BAPLA‏

Nov 09. 2012
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CEPIC endorses the Briefing Paper to the House of Lords. The document is supported by BAPLA and was produced by Serena Tierney, Head of Intellectual Property at Bircham Dyson Bell LLP (with strong connections and parliamentary agents).

The paper covers issues which require further scrutiny at parliamentary level:

orphan works
extended collective licensing
new exceptions to copyright
reduction of copyright terms for anonymous, pseudonymous and unpublished works

CEPIC agrees that the legislative proposals being put forward by the UK Government represent a 'serious threat' to the picture business and to rightsholders in their ability to generate income from copyright protection.

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European Parliament Proposed Changes to Orphan Works Rules

Jul 16. 2012
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On Tuesday 10 July, the legal affairs committee of the European parliament discussed the proposed directive on Orphan Works.

A compromise text had been agreed on 6 June between the European Parliament and the European Council. The MEPs are expected to vote on the proposed legislation during plenary on 12 September 2012. It will then still have to be approved by the Council as well.

  • The compromise text published on 8 June may be found here

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Finding the Author is not a Lost Cause

Oct 18. 2011
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On 12th October, within the framework of the Frankfurt Bookfair, CEPIC and EVA addressed the issue of Orphan Works.

Cultural heritage institutions scan and digitize their collections to give access to the public. A growing number of images is concerned. Prior authorization is needed but not all rights holders can be tracked.

The legal back ground was explained by prof. Dr. Dreier (KIT). The ARROW tool, a network supporting the search, was demonstrated by Paola Mazzuchi (ARROW).

The CEPIC presentation which outlines CEPIC's position on Arrow Plus may be downloaded here.

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CEPIC Statement on Proposed Directive on Certain Permitted Uses of Orphan Works

Aug 16. 2011
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CEPIC was founded in 1993 to present a unified voice to advise and lobby on new legislation emerging from Brussels.

Registered as an EEIG (Economic European Interest Group) in Paris in 1999, it achieved observer status at WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organisation) in 1997.

  • Please find the complete file attached to this article.

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Comment 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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