Meet Florian Koempel - International Copyright Consultant and Director of lusArtium- at the CEPIC Rights Webinar on 25 May. Sign up today!

Sadly, we will have to wait until 2022 to meet in person at the next CEPIC Congress. Our decision to extend the postponement of Congress reflects the current COVID situation as well as the results of the CEPIC Congress survey conducted in the first week of May 2021. Stay safe and healthy.

EU Member States have until the 7th of June 2021 to implement its provisions into their national laws. How good is the state of implementation? How good the prospects for visual rights holders? Register here.

The Court of Justice of the European Union (the CJEU) has handed down the latest judgment in a long-running case concerning the online framing of copyright material. Kate Allen of Swanturton tells us more on the implications of the case.

Meet Ryan Carreon - associate attorney in the Copyright Division of Higbee & Associates - at the 2nd CEPIC Enforcement Webinar on 20 April. Sign up today.

In May 2021, the Bureau of Photography, a dependancy of the French Minitry of Culture, is launching its second edition of the Parliament of Photography in a new form: two days of meetings accessible online from the National Institute of Art History in order to bring together professionals from the sector.

Meet Naomi Sarega - Supervising Attorney for The Law Firm of Higbee & Associate’s Copyright Division at the 2nd CEPIC Enforcement Webinar on 20 April. Sign up today!

Meet Dennis Wetzig, CEO of PIXRAY - the creators of fairlicensing.com - who will present the point of view of European copyright owners. Sign up today.

The Law Firm of Higbee & Associates is a true full-service copyright law firm that has helped photographers and agencies recover nearly 40 million dollars from infringers.

They make the CEPIC webinars possible.

As a follow up to our Enforcement webinar of 5th March, CEPIC will be looking at copyright enforcement across territories. The webinar is sponsored by Higbee & Associates.

Meet Christina Hawatmeh - Founder and CEO of Scopio - at the CEPIC Business Webinar: Is it still possible to make money with photography? on 25 March. Sign up today!

Meet Sarah Casillas - Head of Content for Adobe Stock - at the CEPIC Business Webinar: Is it still possible to make money with photography? on 25 March. Sign up today!

Meet Andreas Genz - Managing Director at dpa Picture Alliance - at the CEPIC Business Webinar: Is it still possible to make money with photography? on 25 March. Sign up today!

CEPIC joins 110+ European cultural networks and organisations in a joint letter to ensure that that culture is explicitly included in the National Recovery and Resilience Plans of the EU.

Meet Paul Melcher - Managing Director of MelcherSystem Consulting - at the CEPIC Business Webinar: Is it still possible to make money with photography? on 25 March. Sign up today!

CEPIC welcomes its latest member: the Union des Photographes Professionnels from France.

EVA welcomes the ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union on case C-392/19 as it clarifies when framing practices on the internet (also known as “embedding”) amount to communication to the public within the meaning of the InfoSoc directive 2001/29.

Never miss a CEPIC webinar again. The CEPIC Webinar Recordings are now available upon registration.

You can't miss the CEPIC Business Webinar: Is it still possible to make money with photography? on 25 March. Sign up today!

The 8th of March is International Women's Day. Cultura Creative celebrates all things WOMAN on International Women's Day!

Meet Glenn Harvey, photographer with Red Cat Photograhy, at the CEPIC Enforcement Webinar: Best Practices in Post Licensing on 4 March. Sign up today!

Meet Ute Krebs, licensing case manager at Copytrack, at the CEPIC Enforcement Webinar on 4 March. Sign up today!

Meet Thomas Bakker, full-time freelance photographer and Post-Licensing expert with Pro Shots Netherlands - at the CEPIC Enforcement Webinar on 4 March. Sign up today!

Meet Elsa Bizet - Client Relation Executive at PixWays - at the CEPIC Enforcement Webinar on 4 March.

Meet Lars Modie, Key Account Manager at TT, Sweden, at the CEPIC Enforcement Webinar on 4 March. Sign up today.

Meet Dennis Wetzig, CEO of PIXRAY - the creators of fairlicensing.com - at the CEPIC Enforcement Webinar on 4 March. Sign up today.

Don't miss the CEPIC Enforcement Webinar on 4 March 2021: Best Practices in Post-Licensing. Sponsored by PichRights & PIXRAY

FROM THE CEPIC NEWSLETTER

Meet Andrea Stern - founder of ASA Ltd., Consultancy. - at the CEPIC Cultural Heritage Webinar: Challenges and Opportunities of Selling Cultural Heritage Images on 16 February 2021.

Meet Veneta Bullen, freelance picture consultant and Chair of the Picture Research Association (PRA), on 16 February 2021 at the CEPIC Cultural Heritage Webinar: Challenges and Opportunities of Selling Cultural Heritage Images

Meet Alfonso Guiterrez - founder and CEO of agefotostock - on 16 February at the CEPIC Cultural Heritage Webinar: Challenges and Opportunities of Selling Cultural Heritage Images

Meet Thomas Pey, Managing Director at akg-images Paris, at the CEPIC Cultural Heritage Webinar on 16 February 2021.

The battle over Article 17 continues. New proposals, notably from Germany, call the balance found in the Copyright Directive into question. A recent report to the French government attempts to restore the balance in favour of rights holders and argues that content recognition tools play a central role in this process.

Politics has missed the chance to create justice in the digital market - to the detriment of the German creative industries. The winners are the global online platforms.

Unfortunately, the coronavirus pandemic still has a tight grip on our daily lives. We are unsure whether the Congress will happen in forthcoming May, but even if it is not feasible to hold the CEPIC Congress in May 2021, we are exploring for later dates in the year.

The CEPIC Cultural Heritage Webinar - "Challenges and Opportunities of Selling CH Images" - will take place on 16 Feb. Join today and be part of this informative, interactive and international session with CEPIC. Looking forward to your questions.

New study reveals that cultural and creative industries could hold the key to rebuilding Europe’s battered economy.

The aim of this CEPIC Technology Webinar was to provide an introduction to innovative tools that preserve the integrity of digital visual content, from provenance to authorship.

Introducing Scott Lowenstein, Strategist on The New York Times Research & Development team. Sign up today for the CEPIC Technology Webinar: Authenticity in Times of Fake News (21 Jan)

In 2019 the Alinari Archives changed owners and was purchased by the Regione Toscana. Giorgio van Straten, president of the new Alinari Foundation created by the Regione Toscana after the purchase of the Fratelli Alinari heritage answered three questions on the Alinari archive.

Introducing Janos Farkas, CEO of CLink and speaker of the CEPIC Technology Webinar on 21 January. Sign up today!

CLink Media will offer the Content Authentification Initiative enhanced tools and features ranging from free personal use to enterprise level applications.

Introducing Andy Parsons, Director of Adobe's Content Authenticity Iniciative (CAI). Meet Andy Parsons at the CEPIC Technology Webinar on 21 January. Sign up today!

Sponsored by CLink, CEPIC technology webinar on 21 January will revolve around Authenticity in Times of Fake News. Save the date!

The Czech News Agency (?TK) and the Profimedia.CZ a.s. group entered the final phase of negotiations on a possible acquisition of Profimedia by the Czech News Agency. Today the parties confirmed their interest in carrying out the transaction.

FAF Toscana – Fondazione Alinari per la Fotografia, a foundation established by the Italian public entity “Regione Toscana” has renewed the distribution partnership that Fratelli Alinari has established with agefotostock since JANUARY 2017.

Warmest Warmest Holiday Wishes! Let's meet in person in 2021!

On wednesday 16th December, CEPIC organised a webinar on extended collective licensing.

The Global SinoPhoto Awards 2020 (GSPA2020), an exciting new international photography contest, has launched and is now open for entries until 17th January 2021 inviting professional, amateur, young photographers - anyone interested in Chinese culture - to participate and win up to $4500 in cash prizes.

Creativity Works!, a leading European coalition of the creative and cultural industries, sees the Digital Services Act (DSA) as a unique opportunity to ensure a safe, trustworthy and respectful online environment for consumers and businesses alike.

The current regulations for digital services and online platforms in the EU are 20 years old. The EU Commission presented its plans for new digital laws yesterday, on December 15th.

The fourth Stakeholder Dialogue took place in Brussels on 16th December. Here are the time of appearances with presentations.

Introducing Florian Koempel, Copyright Consultant and Moderator of the CEPIC Licensing Webinar

Introducing Mats Lindberg, former CEO Bildupphovsrätt i Sverige, Visual Copyright Society in Sweden (BUS) and now senior adviser and consultant.

Image Source, the leading independent premium stock licensing agency today announces the launch of its Stock Video site for premium stock licensing – www.footage.co.uk. addressing the growing demand for premium stock video across the world.

In an usual move a coalition of EU stakeholders, including CEPIC, have sent the attached joint letter of EU stakeholders, listing their concerns regarding the German implementation draft of article 17.

Introducing Paul Verstergren, chairman for the CEPC member BLF and in the board of the visual rights management organisation in Sweden.

Introducing Dr. Urban Papi, CEO of the collecting society Bild-Kunst and speaker of the CEPIC Licensing Webinar.

All you need to know about the Extended Collective Licensing in one session on Wednesday, 16 December.

IMAGO, the largest independent photo agency and producer of sport content in Europe today launched a brand new identity & web platform along with the launch of a new digital magazine “The Game”

Creativity Works!, a leading European coalition of the creative and cultural sectors, welcomes the 25 November Action Plan on Intellectual Property as a way of “making the most of the EU’s innovative potential”.

Users can License Multiple Media with One Integrated Membership and a Black Friday discount

The agency La Collection is very sad to announce the death of Léon Herschtritt, on 21 November 2020 à Paris.

The pandemic is having a major impact on the creative industries. The Coronavirus Response Investment Initiative is a welcome sign of support for the sector, although funds have yet to reach businesses. The creative industries should be recognised as a key sector in the recovery funds.

Dreamstime, the world's largest stock photography community, with 33 million users and 148 million images to this date, has recently released its new Upload section. Re-designed and finetuned for its 670,000+ contributors, the new upload integrates Dreamstime’s proprietary PhotoEye™ AI technology, prioritizes features based on popularity, adds an accessible mass file and metadata import solutions and allows instant connection with the dedicated mobile app.

In the open letter 110 pan-European cultural networks and associations, including CEPIC, call the European Union (EU) and EU member states to protect culture as part of the coronavirus recovery plans and dedicate at the very least 2% of national Recovery and Resilience Facility budget to culture and creative sectors.

Next to similar EU level calls to consider culture in recovery programmes, CEPIC has co-signed a German call for the cultural and creative industries to be included in all EU support programmes and national development programmes as a driving force for the economy as a whole.

Many photographers who have entered the stock photo business in the last 5 to 10 years have trouble understanding why photographers who have been producing stock photos since the 1980s and 1990s are so unhappy with how the business had declined. I’d like to provide a little historical perspective.

Rightholders criticise Ministry of Justice on copyright reform draft. "The legal position of the creative industries will be further weakened in relation to global platforms and established value creation models will be deprived of their basis" they say.

On 13 October 2020, the German Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (BMJV) published a draft bill for a law to adapt copyright law to the requirements of the digital internal market.

TopFoto’s archive is one of 445 heritage organisations across the country set to receive a lifechanging financial boost from the government thanks to the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund to help them through the coronavirus pandemic

The competition authority in France has ruled on 8th October against Google confirming in appeal that Google must open talks with press publishers about paying to use their content.

The IPTC Metadata mconference will take place on 13 October from 17:00-20:00 CET and is free to attend.

In September 2029 the EU Commission has entered the hot phase of the implementation of Art. 17 of the EU Copyright Directive: the so-called "stakeholder dialogue", as foreseen by Art. Art.17-10. This section includes documentation relevant to the picture Industry.

Licensing model instead of upload filters: BVPA and VG Bild-Kunst are aiming for a comprehensive collective licence for the use of professional image material on social media platforms

On 25th September we completed and submitted the online survey for the European Commission study on the review of the application of the Orphan Works Directive (OWD).

The U.K.'s leading underwater photo library, Image Quest Marine, is making a splash with the official launch of their new website [link to www.imagequestmarine.com]!

Science Photo Library would like to share their latest project, which is part of our continuous efforts to keep your work on the radar of our clients.

After the breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing failed in July, Dreamstime is appealing the dismissal of the antitrust cause of action as well as those based in contract and California's unfair competition laws.

The EU Commission presented its plans for new digital laws on December 15th 2020. The current regulations for digital services and online platforms in the EU are 20 years old. CEPIC participated in the EU public consultation in August/September. All links and documents may be found in this area.

The Ashmolean, the University of Oxford’s museum of art and archaeology, has launched its new image library. Powered by Capture, the library boasts the museum’s world-famous collections, telling human stories across cultures and across time.

Thanks to all our sponsors and participants who made this first CEPIC public webinar possible.

Dreamstime, the world’s largest stock photo community, announced the start of a celebratory month to mark its 20th anniversary this September.

We're pleased to introduce Mike Holderness - Chair of the European Federation of Journalists Authors’ Rights Expert Group - as speaker at the CEPIC Legal Webinar on 10 September.

We're pleased to have Isabelle Szczepanski - journalist and COO of ElectronLibre - as speaker at the Legal Webinar on 10 September.

We're pleased to have Mathieu Desoubeaux - CEO of IMATAG, Ph.D., Digital Content Protection & Computer Science.- as speaker at the Legal Webinar on 10 September.

Over the past months, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted our lives and societies and has closed schools for more than 1.5 billion children worldwide. Dreamstime offers a 50% education discount to all educators and students looking for visuals to enhance their assignments, courses, or teaching materials.

We are happy to announce that Google has launched a new licensable badge on Google Images, in addition to other related features and metadata.

We're pleased to count with Dr Eleonora Rosati as speaker at the Legal Webinar on 10 September.

CEPIC's first Legal Webinar will revolve around Art. 15 and Art. 17 of the EU Directive. A follow- up of the successful Legal Worshop at CEPIC Congress 2019 in Paris is now open for registration.

20/20 Software has announced the integration of SmartFrame Technologies’ unique image-streaming technology into the 20/20 Software platform.

Join our sponsors and link your brand to the CEPIC Legal Webinar "The EU Directive - one year after. Where are we now?" on 10 September. Register now and save the date.

On September 10th CEPIC is organising a webinar to look at the implementation of the two most critical and controversial articles of the EU Copyright Directive: Article 15 (publishers' right) and Article 17 (creative content distributed by online platforms). Where are we now one year after and why should creatives care?

The European Commission has published a document aimed at finalising the stakeholder dialogue and setting out the Commission’s initial ideas for the guidance on Article 17 of the Copyright Directive

On 1st of July, the German Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection published a discussion paper on the implementation of Art.17.

Approaching the launch of the licensable image badge CEPIC members ahould be aware that a more robust structured data (Schema.org) validation tool (Rich Results Testing Tool) is now available.