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.

Are you a cultural or creative worker? How are you dealing with the crisis? ACT NOW! Fill out and share the survey. Let’s co design effective policies!

Ahead of the meeting of 19 June between EU leaders to discuss the Commission's Recovery Fund, 94 organisations representing the whole spectrum of Europe's cultural and creative sector have issued a joint call for strong and systemic support measures at EU and national level to recover from the crisis.

CEPIC has decided to postpone the CEPIC Congress 2020 to 2021 in the same city, Palma de Mallorca, and in the same venue, the Gran Melià Victoria hotel.

As US Congress is expected to update the Digital Millennium Copyright Act this year, Nancy Wolff analyses the long awaited Copyright Office report on 512 (c) of Title 17 of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act.

After introducing a series of features for their members during the COVID-19 pandemic and a weekly donation of 5% from all sales to the WHO’s Solidarity Response Fund in March, Dreamstime is now taking corporate responsibility further and adds a relief stimulus for its contributors.

The embedded Creator/Credit/Copyright notice as filled in the IPTC fields are now more visible in the Google Image Viewer.

Documentation for the Annual General Meeting 2020

For the first time the CEPIC Annual General Meeting will be virtual. This is the possibility for members and affiliates to attend, at least in part. The AGM is divided into slots that may be attended separately. A registration link is provided.

The third survey of the German Picture market has now been published. It took place in February 2020, immediately before the considerable changes in public life in Germany due to the Covid 19 pandemic. For the first time, photographers* as well as picture agencies took part in this annual survey.

Europe’s cultural and creative sectors were among the first and hardest hit by the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis. They will also be among the last. Across Europe, almost all cultural activities have been cancelled or postponed indefinitely, while venues and retailers have closed with disastrous consequences for all creators’ and cultural and creative professionals’ livelihoods, as well as the ecosystem as a whole. Millions of jobs are on the line.

TopFoto has secured exclusive rights to organise and represent this small but fascinating collection, much of which has never been seen.

The CEPIC AGM will take place on the 17 of June 2020 from 13:00 to 18 Hours.

Faced with challenges to produce high-quality video content at scale, new footage subscription provides content creators with efficient solutions to meet market demands

"It is our responsibility to protect and support the cultural ecosystem and creators all over Europe in order to ensure that they can continue to create culture, during these difficult times and in the future."

Munich, April 1st, 2020: House of Pictures, the picture agency for premium interiors, has been part of Image Professionals GmbH since October 2019. The Munich-based agency group unites various leading specialist picture agencies under one roof. The website www.houseofpictures.com has undergone a complete relaunch, presenting new agency content, updated functions and a revised, fresh design.

The Digital Medial Licensing Association is pleased to announce the appointment of Elaine Vitt as Executive Director.

Dreamstime, the world's largest stock photo community, with 29 million users to the date, announces a series of company initiatives aimed at helping their customers during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Despite the current restrictions on curbing the spread of corona virus, imago images will remain available to all customers and photographers. All departments are staffed and can be contacted daily by phone or email.

Two leading Industry organisations in Sweden urge the Swedish Government to support a project that would pay photographers to document the corona Crisis rather than have them depend on grants.

The present crisis is unprecedented. It will hit all countries across all sectors. Book Publishing and the media industry will be affected. Advertising revenues and assignments are likely to go down. The picture industry is predominantly made up of small to micro enterprises and self-employed photographers who will struggle for the duration of the crisis.

United Nations Global Call Out To Creatives - help stop the spread of COVID-19

BAPLA was one of the signatories of the Creative Industry Federation’s letter to Rishi Sunak MP in support of the self-employed in the UK’s creative workforce.

BRANDIT, a global domain provider and consulting firm, has announced that it’s partnering with image-streaming platform SmartFrame to strengthen its service.

Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. On 19th March the EU Commission adopted Temporary Framework to enable Member States to further support the economy in the COVID-19 outbreak. How this works and why this is necessary is explained in this article.

The CEPIC Executive Board is wishing you the best of health. We are looking forward to welcoming you from 29 September to 2 October in the beautiful city of Palma de Mallorca.

The Culture and Education Committee Chair called on the EU and member states to help education and creative sectors to mitigate the effects of containing COVID-19.

Please note your registration must be fully paid to access the participants lists.

CEPIC welcomes the submission of the European/ International Federation of Journalist which expressly mentions images (and CEPIC) on page 3

Scam attempts have been reported. Don't fall for them! CEPIC does not work with any travel agency or hotel booking system.

The Peugeot Endowment Fund for the Memory of Industrial History recently partnered with Photononstop to distribute and market the contents of the “Terre Blanche” archives center.

The feedback to the Beta launch the "Licensable Images Badge" has been overall positive.