New european study on remuneration for authors and performers

The European Commission has just made public an eagerly anticipated study entitled “Remuneration of authors and performers for the use of their works and the fixations of their performances” . The study was commission by the European Commission’s DG Communications Networks, Content and technology and carried out by the University of Amsterdam and Europe Economics. It aims to offer a snapshot of the current situation regarding the level of remuneration paid to authors and performers in the music and audiovisual sector, in order to compare the existing national systems of remuneration and identify their relative advantages and disadvantages. http://fia-actors.com/no_cache/media/actualites/fr/article/new-european-study-on-remuneration-for-authors-and-performers/ http://fia-actors.com/fileadmin/user_upload/News/Documents/2015/July/2015-ExecutiveSummaryFrench.pdf http://fia-actors.com/fileadmin/user_upload/News/Documents/2015/July/2015-Finalreport.pdf Rémunération des auteurs et des artistes interprètes pour l’utilisation de leurs oeuvres et fixations de leurs interprétations et exécutions Remuneration of authors and performers for the use of their works and the fixations of their performances