As newly elected President, I am delighted to welcome our new Congress partner, Mobius Labs. The Mobius Labs vision for the future of our industry is very much in line with the new CEPIC’s Board’s vision in that we understand the power of visual content and the importance of technology in helping us evolve.

The programme is work in progress and will be enriched in the next couple of weeks as partners and speakers are confirmed!

Since 2020 PicRights and Imago Sponsors of Congress in Mallorca!

IMAGO is now a member of CEPIC as of February 2022. IMAGO attends CEPIC Congress every year and has registered three attendees for 2022 in Mallorca.

CEPIC Congress 2022 is pleased to announce our key partner Mobius Labs this year!

The Aix-Marseille-Provence Chamber of Commerce and Industry has chosen La COLLECTION !

Pixsy’s mission is to empower creatives around the world to be in control of how, where and when their work is used.

The CEPIC Congress is the largest networking hub for agencies worldwide and will take place in the Convention Center of the Gran Meliá Victoria hotel in Palma de Mallorca from 25 to 27 May 2022 with the Welcome Reception on 24 May. It is possible to book a room directly at the hotel on a specific CEPIC Congress dedicated website.

Mobius Labs is now a CEPIC member as of January 2022.

In August 2021 CEPIC created a working group on Best Practices in Copyright Enforcement. The group, made up equally of agencies and service companies, has completed its work and produced a list of recommendations the CEPIC Best Practices in Copyright Tracking.

The registration of CEPIC in Brussels as an AISBL has made this possible: Britain is back, BAPLA is back. At least at CEPIC!

PA Media Group has today appointed Alamy Managing Director and former PA Media graduate, Emily Shelley, to its Board following more than 20 years with the business.

Members of the European Parliament adopted on the 21st January their position on the proposal for a regulation on a Single Market for Digital Services (Digital Services Act), amending the eCommerce directive from 2000.

AIR FRANCE and KLM have been chosen as preferred carriers for C22.

As part of a wide coalition of cultural and creative organisations, CEPIC co-signed the attached statement to urge the European Parliament to make meaningful improvements to the text of the Digital Services Act that will be voted on in plenary on Thursday 20th January. Read the full statement .

After 22 months CEPIC Congress is back. From now it is possible to register to C22 which will take place in Palma de Mallorca from 25 to 27th May. The Welcome Reception takes place on Wednesday 24th.

Negotiations are on-going in Brussels on the Digital Service Act .

ANP, the Dutch News Agency has joined CEPIC in November.

The CEPIC Board has selected Janos FARKAS, CEO of Clink Media and Serguei FOMIN, CEO of Russian Look as its representative at IPTC.

We are organising an information webinar on 14 December 2021 CEPIC to tell you about:

Dreamstime, the world’s largest stock photo community, announces it has optimized its contributors’ Android mobile app to connect with Instagram and Google Photos accounts, making it easy for everyone to import, share and monetize visual content from the two platforms.

Here are the speakers of OnDAM Paris 2021, a conference 100% dedicated to DAM.

CEPIC is now looking for an individual will to represent CEPIC at IPTC - The International Press and Telecommunication Council -

Alamy, the world’s most inclusive content platform, has unveiled a striking new visual identity as it strengthens its offering to the creative sector.

CEPIC is very pleased to welcome the law firm Higbee & Associates as new CEPIC affiliate member. Hibee & Associates is active in the enforcement of copyright.

Dreamstime, the world’s largest stock photo community, announces important unique-in-the-industry search updates, enabling its customers to enjoy regionally specific content and a more diverse, personalized search feed.

OnDAM is the first conference 100% dedicated to DAM in France!

ACTIVO® is a global strategy and transformation consulting organisation, specialising in advising and supporting enterprises in significant transformation, from innovative strategy to execution and with an unstinting focus on results.

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PICSEL, the UK visual arts collecting society, has rebranded and relaunched its website.

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On 30 September CEPIC is participating in workshop organised by the European Commission/ DG Connect on: ‘Opportunities and challenges of Artificial Intelligence Technologies for the Cultural and Creative Sectors’

We are pleased to share with you the dates of the CEPIC Congress 2022 (C22). Read here the announcement by the President of CEPIC, Christina Vaughan. We look forward to your ideas, thoughts and participation.

Code of conduct for GDPR withdrawn and new privacy recommendations to be finalized soon.

The Annexes of the study focus on the use of metadata by key national publishers, such Le Monde, regional publishers such as La Voix du Nord and magazine publishers such as Gala.

Fake media has been making frequent headlines. The battlefield is fairly broad. Readers wanting to get familiar with the subject are faced with numerous initiatives started by publishers, news media, and technology companies. Janos Farkas, CEO of Clink Media, sheds some light on these different initiatives.

Meet Yacine Le Forestier - deputy head of AFP’s news agency Europe - at the CEPIC & EANA Webinar: Fighting Fake News As A Business Model on 21 September 2021. Register today! *Register to receive a link to the webinar recording in case you can't attend.

Dreamstime launches the "Cover of the Year 2021 in Romania" contest with prizes totaling 7,500 Euros.

Meet Brendan Quinn - Managing Director of the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) -at the CEPIC & EANA Webinar: Fighting Fake News As A Business Model on 21 September 2021. Register today! *Register to receive a link to the webinar recording in case you can't attend.

Meet Mathieu Desoubeaux - CEO of IMATAG, Ph.D., Digital Content Protection & Computer Science-at the CEPIC & EANA Webinar: Fighting Fake News As A Business Model on 21 September 2021. Register today!

Meet Stefan Voss - head of verification at dpa - at the CEPIC & EANA Webinar: Fighting Fake News As A Business Model on 21 September 2021. Register today!

CEPIC and EANA proudly present their first joint webinar: "Fighting Fake News As A Business Model: Success stories from major press agencies and technology perspectives" on 21 September 2021. Register today!

A year pandemic and two postponed CEPIC Congresses have left agents around the world craving for networking. BAPLA is therefore organising a "networking event" on Thursday 7th and Friday 8th October.

CEPIC announce working group to work out best practices between copyright enforcement crawlers and picture agencies enforcing their rights online.

How do press publishers handle metadata and how can government encourage a virtuous usage for a virtuous internet eco-system.

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This is where you find all the documents of the AGM 2021

CLink Media is CEPIC newest member!

Join us on 6th July at the CEPIC Cultural Heritage Webinar sponsored by SmartFrame to discuss "Technology, Access and Value: balancing dissemination, protection and profitability in the CH sector" Sign up today!

Meet Fergus McKenna - Content Sales Director for Reach plc - at the CEPIC Cultural Heritage Webinar: Technology, Access and Value: balancing dissemination, protection and profitability in the Cultural Heritage sector on 6 July. Sign up today!

CEPIC announces four new board members and a new president who will each help support the work of the non-profit organisation to reinvigorate the business and the legal standing of providers of visual media content worldwide.

MomaPIX introduces the Prisma archive and interviews Federico Tarrés, founder of the Prisma archive,

"Extended collective licensing", a legal tool to be introduced in French law in May 2021, would give authors' societies the role of collecting and redistributing the amount of royalties owed by platforms (YouTube, Facebook and others) to content to content creators. The UPP supports the legislative steps that aim to put in place mechanism of remuneration of authors by platforms.

Sophie Goossens - Partner at Reed Smith LLP, copyright, digital media and technology expert & EU copyright law and public affairs specialist - at the CEPIC Legal Webinar: "AI: Legal Challenges in the EU and Europe" on 30 June. Sing up today!

Meet Mark Milstein - co-founder and rainmaker at vAIsual.com and Managing Director at Microstocksolutions LLC - at the CEPIC Legal Webinar: "AI: Legal Challenges in the EU and Europe". Sing up today and don't miss the 50% discount on the second ticket.

Meet Nancy Wolff - a partner at the intellectual property, media and entertainment law firm of Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard, LLP located in New York - at the CEPIC Legal Webinar: "AI: Legal Challenges in the EU and Europe". Sing up today and don't miss the 50% discount on the second ticket.

On 4th June the European Commission has finally released its Guidance on the implementation of Article 17. A number of representatives of the creative sector have signed a common letter to raise concerns on the Commission's Guidance.

Meet Lucy Crompton-Reid - Chief Executive of Wikimedia UK - at the CEPIC Cultural Heritage Webinar: Technology, Access and Value: balancing dissemination, protection and profitability in the Cultural Heritage sector on 6 July. Sign up today!

Ask your questions to two legal experts from both sides of the Atlantic and a picture industry professional on 30 June at the CEPIC AI Legal Webinar: Legal Challenges in the US and in Europe. Sign up today!

Meet Rob Sewell - CEO of SmartFrame Technologies - at the CEPIC Cultural Heritage Webinar: Technology, Access and Value: balancing dissemination, protection and profitability in the Cultural Heritage sector on 6th July 2021. Sign up today!

Meet Clive Coward - Manager of Tate Images - at the CEPIC Cultural Heritage: Technology, Access and Value: balancing dissemination, protection and profitability in the Cultural Heritage sector on 6th July. Sign up today!

Meet Jonathan Lockwood, Vice-President Corporate Counsel of Getty Images at the CEPIC Righst Webinar: "The state of the EU Union: Where do we stand with the implementation of Article 17? on 25 May. Sign up today!

Meet Paul Melcher - Managing Director of MelcherSystem Consulting - at the CEPIC Rights Webinar: "The state of the EU Union: Where do we stand with the implementation of Article 17? on 25 May. Sign up today!

Meet Sylvie Fodor, CEPIC's Executive Director, at the CEPIC Rights Webinar on 25 May. Sign up today!

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

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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