Emily Shelley has been appointed Managing Director of Alamy, the global stock imagery business. Her appointment follows PA Media Group’s acquisition of Alamy earlier this month.

The last meeting of the “Stakeholder Dialogue” took place on Monday 10th February.

The report of Professor Pierre Sirinelli on "automated image referencing services" (i.e. image search engines) has been published. The report proposes an update of the French law of July 2016 which imposed a mandatory collective management system on image search engines and whose implementing decree had never been published.

The acquisition sees the PA Media Group enter the stock imagery market for the first time.

Finding the right picture has never been easier Munich-based picturemaxx AG, market leader in the images industry, has equipped its successful media search engine with a new feature. The new Matrix-Filter in my-picturemaxx 5.1 makes professional image searching even easier and more effective. For the first time, all available special filters can be mapped using one tool.

Don't miss the Welcome Reception of the CEPIC Congress 2020 on Tuesday, 26 May.

The 6th Stakeholder Dialogue meeting takes place on 10th February in Brussels.

A recent government report in France has analysed how digital tools may be used for the The protection of intellectual property rights on online sharing platforms. It's a must read in the context of the implementation of the EU Copyright Directive and of Art. 17.