The Society of Audiovisual Authors (SAA) has congratulated Slovenia for implementing EU Copyright Directives.
By doing so, it has placed the country “among the most modern legislation ensuring film directors and screenwriters are remunerated for the use of their works on the most important modes of exploitation, such as broadcasting, retransmission, public performance, online uses and VOD”.
Barbara Hayes, chair of the SAA board of directors, added: “By joining the group of EU countries like Spain, Italy, Poland, France and Belgium that provide audiovisual authors with rights to remuneration with mandatory collective management, Slovenia is equipping its audiovisual sector with the most efficient legal mechanism to stimulate a virtuous circle of production and exploitation of high-quality audiovisual works”.
Gregor Stibernik, MD of Slovenia’s AIPA, said: “We are thrilled with this legislative achievement after a four year long journey. It recognises our Slovenian creators for their talent and works. AIPA is the representative collective management organisation for several hundred members. We have the necessary infrastructure in place and bilateral agreements with nearly 50 countries, we therefore stand ready to manage the new rights granted by the law”.
As of today, 18 out of 27 EU Member States have implemented the EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. According to the SAA, it and its members are working to ensure that as many as possible seize the opportunity of the directive to ensure that directors and screenwriters receive fair remuneration for the exploitation of their works, on all media, and introduce in their law the much-needed collective mechanisms to ensure the effectiveness of this right to fair remuneration in industry practice. Slovenia is an example of a country that transposed the Copyright directive’s Article 18 principle of fair remuneration in accordance with its intention and the best interest of authors in mind.
