Read Cécile Despringre September Digest: from Sarajevo Film Festival panels to grappling with 370 amendments to the EU Parliament's Copyright & AI report. September has been a busy month... www.saa-authors.eu/articles/sec... Don't miss the next one – subscribe to the newsletter on LinkedIn!

Welcome to Cato Kusters, the newest – and youngest - addition to the SAA Board of Patrons! 🎬 Discover Cato and her debut film “Julian” in Cineuropa’s interview: cineuropa.org/en/interview... 🔗Meet our Patrons here www.saa-authors.eu/board-of-pat... #SAAPatrons 🧡 #WeLoveAuthors

The UN Human Rights Office has now published its report on ‘AI and human creativity’, in which the SAA’s contribution is quoted twice! 🔗 Read the full report here: www.ohchr.org/en/documents/thematic-reports/a80278-report-special-rapporteur-field-cultural-rights-alexandra

Back from summer and ready for a busy autumn? 🍂🧑‍💻 Check our Newsletter! mailchi.mp/saa-authors/... In this edition, we reflect on recent developments and share what’s ahead for the season. Stay connected to discover key updates, upcoming events, and stories from the SAA community ✨

The results of the Polish EU Presidency's survey reveal the challenges that European collective management organisations (CMOs) and rightsholders face today. ✨ Read our latest blog post www.saa-authors.eu/articles/cmo...

🎬 Are you going to the SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL? If so, make sure you don't miss the panel discussion on 21 August about 'AI, Authors’ Rights & Guild Solidarity. Cécile Despringre, the SAA Secretary General, is one of the speakers! www.cinelinkindustrydays.com

“For AI to become a new creative tool, it is absolutely essential to ensure this artificial intelligence is not guided by the natural stupidity of certain human beings,” - Director (and an SAA Patron) Cedric Klapisch, Jury president for the AI film festival www.screendaily.com/news/mk2-unv...

🌻 Summer greetings from the SAA team and here's Cécile Despringre's July Digest! Read the July Digest here:

📣 The SAA has joined a broad coalition of European and global rightsholder organizations to express their dissatisfaction with the AI Act implementation package. Link to our website: www.saa-authors.eu/articles/joi... #WeLoveAuthors I #StayTrueToTheAct

@screendirectors.eu is looking for its new CEO! 🔗 Full job description: screendirectors.eu/wp-content/u... 📅 Application deadline: The call is open until the end of August 📍 Location: Brussels

💶 The EU Commission proposal for its 2028-2034 budget: 'The Media+ strand will focus on reinforcing the competitiveness and diversity of the European audiovisual sector, supporting content development, distribution, film literacy and co-production initiatives.' cineuropa.org/en/newsdetai...

☀️ Read Cécile Despringre's digest! Her thoughts on the EU Parliament workshop on copyright and AI, which align with our own views, our contribution to a new Culture Compass for Europe, and the screening of 'Loss of Balance'... www.saa-authors.eu/articles/sec...

The SAA has signed a joint letter alongside more than 70 other cultural and creative sector associations, calling for Europe to demonstrate its cultural leadership and increase the Creative Europe budget for the next Multiannual Financial Framework. www.saa-authors.eu/articles/let...

🎉 Today, we're launching our new website! It’s designed to help you find what you need faster with fewer clicks. It has a smarter search function and a modern look for both light and dark modes. Visit now: www.saa-authors.eu #WeLoveAuthors ✨ Website by Tentwelve

🤝EFAD, in partnership with associations, hosts film screenings in Brussels during each EU Presidency to celebrate European cinema. The Polish film institute and EFAD are proud to present the exclusive screening of the Polish film #LossOfBalance by #KorekBojanowski 📅Tuesday 24/6 📽️Cinema Galeries

✨ Begin your week by catching up on Cécile Despringre's latest monthly digest about the SAA's activities and the EU Culture Ministers' Council meeting, the Cannes Film Festival, and the EU Parliament's Culture committee hearing on AI.

👉 Share with your networks and/or apply to join our small and dedicated team at the Society of Audiovisual Authors. You'll get hands-on experience in the European audiovisual sector and the development of EU legislation and policies! #Internshipopportunity #hiring #vacancy#traineeship #eujobs

✅ Passed in early 2024, the EU #AIAct gave rightsholders key tools to protect their rights. ⚠️ But the implementation standard is now so low it could undermine the Act, breach EU law & ignore lawmakers’ intent. 👉 We are now calling on EU policymakers to - #StayTrueToTheAct

Ahead of this week's Council meeting of EU Culture Ministers, a global petition was launched today by representatives from the film and audiovisual sectors across the world. ✍🏽 So far, more than 100 organisations from around the world have signed on. The SAA is one of them. Share and sign too 🖹

Did you know that 81% of Europeans worry about artists and creatives fair pay? 📊 See the EU Commission’s new Eurobarometer survey europa.eu/eurobaromete...

📣 Organisations from across the Europe's film and audiovisual sector send a joint statement to EU Culture Ministers calling for sector-specific effective EU funding programmes, to safeguard the long-term resilience, competitiveness and the vitality of Europe’s cultural and creative ecosystem.

👏🏻 “If we don’t act now,” the (Portuguese) Ministry of Culture warned, “we risk losing control over how AI develops, and our artists may lose their rights.”

We endorse the open letter from 'Creators for Europe United', an initiative of the German Initiative Copyright (Initiative Urheberrecht), supported by many other cultural and creative sector organisations. ✍🏽Read and sign creators-for-europe-united.eu #openletterCFEunited #WeLoveAuthors

☀️ Don't miss @cdespringre.bsky.social wrap-up of April, an active month: 15th anniversary SAA Patrons - European directors and screenwriters - participating in our high-level events Ongoing saga of the General Purpose AI Code of Practice LUX Audience Award 2025 www.saa-authors.eu/en/blog/943-...

We stand with @culturaldealeu.bsky.social in calling on EU leaders to put culture at the heart of public policy. Culture contributes to EU’s democracy, competitiveness, and security. To help culture help Europe, we need to Ask, Pay, and Trust the Artist. cultureactioneurope.org/projects/cul...

Our newsletter is out! 📰 mailchi.mp/saa-authors/... If, like us, you've been struggling to keep up with the news, don't worry. This edition will give you an overview of the SAA's work over the last six months!

🪴 “AI is like compost: it recycles existing works and creates the compost that can nourish new plants, growing from human creative works,” SAA Patron Špela Čadež, Slovenian animation writer and director, told Commissioner Glenn Micallef when the SAA met with him. www.saa-authors.eu/en/news/942-...

Watch the recording here vimeo.com/1074365807 (recording with English interpretation)

At the WIPO SCCR side event screenwriters and directors gave testimonies from three continents and copyright experts highlighted the imbalance between the central creative role played by audiovisual authors and their lack of fair remuneration and protection. www.saa-authors.eu/en/news/940-...

Félicitations à Patrick Raude secrétaire général de la SACD, pour sa réélection à la vice-présidence de la @saabrussels.bsky.social. Beaucoup de grands défis à venir sur l’intelligence artificielle notamment et globalement pour la défense des autrices & auteurs, créatrices & créateurs européens.

SAA General Assembly elected a new Board of Directors that will guide the strategic direction of the organisation for 2025-27 to address the challenges facing audiovisual authors in Europe! Barbara Hayes was re-elected as Chair and Patrick Raude as Vice-Chair. www.saa-authors.eu/en/news/939-...

ℹRead our ‘7 recommendations to the UK (and the EU alike)’ based on the SAA's submission to the UK consultation on copyright and AI. #WeLoveAuthors

🗓️AI and the EU Code of Practice, preparing for our co-organised side event in Geneva, meeting with MEPs and news from the SAA Board of Patrons. Read SAA Secretary General @cdespringre.bsky.social March digest. 📰 Subscribe to it as a newsletter on SAA LinkedIn www.saa-authors.eu/en/blog/937-...

Read the joint statement by a large coalition of authors, performers and other rightsholders active across the EU’s cultural and creative sectors regarding the third draft of the EU AI Act’s GPAI Code of Practice: bit.ly/41Xu6ZS We cannot support the GPAI Code of Practice in its current version.

“As a director, as a person who creates stories, words and pictures, I would expect decision-makers to protect my work. I want to have a say in whether this works gets used in feeding AI. And in case it does get used, I want to get paid for it.” Katharina Muckstein, director/writer - SAA Patron

🎫Join us for "Beyond the Credits: Strengthening Audiovisual Authors’ Rights" – a side-event by CISAC, FESAAL, and SAA at WIPO's 46th SCCR session. 📅9 April 2025 | 18:00-19:00 Interpretation: EN, ES, FR 🥂Cocktail reception follows Register by 3 April: bit.ly/43qDLut

“Pushing for more diversity and participation in politics and the arts must be part of European values. If we do not have diversity, we lose touch with society, and if we do not reflect society as it is, it has no value." Our interview with film director and writer Katharina Muckstein

Welcome to Inés Parí­s to the SAA Board of Patrons! Inés París is a Spanish film director and screenwriter. She is Deputy Chair for the Audiovisual College of the SGAE. Meet our 50 European Patrons here bit.ly/3I3y4a7 #SAAPatrons 🧡 #WeLoveAuthors

The Polish film community has mobilised to get royalties for the on-demand and online use of authors' works. With young filmmakers, ZAPA has been at the forefront of this success. Read @annicaryng.bsky.social's interview with Managing Director, Dominik Skoczek. www.saa-authors.eu/en/blog/932-...

1/2 SAA Secretary General @cdespringre.bsky.social attended the Hellenic Copyright Organisation conference in Athens today, speaking on a panel on copyright and collective management in the age of AI. "AI companies are not interested in entering into licensing agreements!..."

📰 Catch up on SAA activities and read @cdespringre.bsky.social digest of a busy February ✨Meetings and events in Berlin and at the Berlinale ✨AI Charter, statements and contributions ✨and more... www.saa-authors.eu/en/blog/930-...

In 2023, the historical action film Dovbush premiered in Ukraine and was immediately embraced by audiences. Recently, the director shared that seventy of the crew members are now serving in the armed forces. Seven are missing in action. Five have been killed. cultureactioneurope.org/news/artisti...

🗣️ ‘As it currently stands [the draft EU Code of Practice] does not show sufficient progress and fails to take into account the comments expressed by our organisations. In fact, when it comes to transparency and respect for copyright, it even appears to be taking several steps backwards.’ Letter 👇

👏🏽 👏🏽 @emmarafowicz.bsky.social Soft law is not sufficient where big tech dominate Innovation is not contrary to safeguards Don’t sacrifice authors rights in the name of competitiveness Challenge the people developing the tech, not the tech Call 4: AI for creators, by creators & for democracy!

First panel of the European Parliament’s event in Berlinale on AI and the audiovisual sector with @emmarafowicz.bsky.social @screendirectors.eu @ec.europa.eu Discussing how the AV sector is using AI tools and the questions creators have on their works being stolen to feed the beast. Is it ethic?

Research from CREATe @uofglasgow.bsky.social, commissioned by Directors UK reveals the tough working practices many directors face. The report finds that by addressing these issues, the sector can “position itself for long-term growth and competitiveness.” 🔗: ow.ly/6iss50UWR72

🧐 When it comes to AI & copyright, is a licensing market just a question of time? Luisiana Schiera, SAA Legal & Policy Officer, discusses it ➡️ bit.ly/4hT8Hrm CMOs are best placed to ensure a smooth flow of remuneration from AI companies to authors, and it’s about time! ⏰ #WeLoveAuthors

'National Plans Linking Reforms and Investments should earmark 2% of their budgets for culture. Member States ... should adhere to key principles: artistic freedom, geographical balance, support for small and independent creators, and #FairPay.' cultureactioneurope.org/news/culture...

👉 women & caregivers in the film & TV industry do not see themselves remaining in the sector 👉 growing gap between company profitability & stagnant wages ... economic recovery of the sector contrast w high precarity & unfair pay for workers uniglobalunion.org/news/social-... @uniglobalunion.org

With the approaching of the Paris 2025 AI Action Summit next week ⏰ the SAA joins the call of 38 European and global organisations in the cultural and creative sectors for an effective compliance of AI model providers to copyright and related rights 📣 Read the call 🔗 bit.ly/4hm6GnA