On 5th November CEPIC participated in the Second Meeting of the Stakeholder Dialogue on the implementation of the EU Copyright Directive. The objective of this high level meeting is to hear stakeholders' views and to discuss possible practical solutions for the application of Article 17. The European Commission will establish rules for "Best Practices".
Next meetings are on 25th November and 16th December.
Stakeholders
After music, games and software on 15.10, the second meeting focused on audio-visual, sports, visual and print content (Books, Press, News)
For online images in the visual sector, EVA and Picsel for CMO, CEPIC and Getty Images for picture agencies made oral and/or PowerPoint presentations.
CEPIC's presentation is available for download here (PDF) and on Video here.
Links to videos
What the visual sector said
Questions
Summary of first two sessions: There is a still a palpable tension between representatives of the rights holders and the platforms. Rights holders look forward to working with platforms: they expect them to take licenses and implement technology. Platforms too say they want to collaborate ; however they are worried about costs and continue to position themselves as passive intermediaries.