From 27 to 29 October 2019 the DMLA conference takes place in the Mariott Hotel in Los Angeles. CEPIC will be there. CEPIC President Alfonso Gutierrez will be on the round table "Platforms & Search: European & News Publishers Perspective"

DMLA has been working on this bill along with the Copyright Alliance and a group of other visual associations over the last ten years and it is great to see all the hard work pay off.

The first "Stakeholder Dialogue" on the implementation of Art.17 of the EU Copyright Directive took place in Brussels on 15 October 2019.

France is the first country to have implemented in part the EU Copyright Directive by introducing the press publishers right in July 2019. This right gives press publishers and press agencies the right to demand remuneration for short digital publications such as snippets showed in Google News.

On 15 October the European Commission is organising the first stakeholder meeting on the implementation of Article 17 of the EU Copyright Directive.

Today, President-elect Ursula von der Leyen presented her team and the new structure of the next European Commission.

Science Photo Library (SPL), the world’s leading source of science and medicine content and Sucré Salé, one of France’s leading photo agencies, announced today a strategic partnership to deliver SPL’s collection of scientific images and videos to the French market.

The Munich-based media service provider StockFood GmbH is given a new company name by Sep.1st, 2019: StockFood becomes Image Professionals. The company, which originally focused on food photography, has continuously expanded its scope of business in recent years and is now emerging with a new company name. Image Professionals will bring together all of the company's specialized agencies and services. However, only the company is being renamed. StockFood, the food photo agency, will remain unaffected.