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IMPALA ON THE DSM AND COPYRIGHT
Helen Smith from CW! member IMPALA (Independent Music Companies Association) wrote on the Digital Post last week, answering a number of questions about what independent music companies need from a......
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EU SUPPORTED FILMS AT THE BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL
19 films selected for the 2015 International Film Festival in Berlin (5-15 February) are supported by EU’s Creative Europe MEDIA sub-programme with over 2 million euro. Nine of the films are present......
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LEADING PRODUCERS WARN ABOLISHING TERRITORIALITY COULD BE THE END OF INDEPENDENT CINEMA IN THE EU
Berlin. At the world-famous Berlinale film festival Günther Oettinger, the EU Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, called for cross-border online film services to be made available all over......
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CREATIVE INDUSTRIES REACH RECORD HIGH – NOW WORTH £8.8 MILLION AN HOUR TO UK ECONOMY
Growth of almost ten per cent in 2013, three times that of wider UK economy Accounted for 1.7 million jobs in 2013, 5.6 per cent of UK jobs 2015 set to be another bumper year for UK creati......
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NEW KPMG STUDY: HUGE CONSUMER CHOICE FOR ONLINE FILM & TV IN THE UK
Almost 90% of the most popular and highest quality film and television content is now available in the UK across legal digital platforms, according to a new report compiled by KPMG and published today......
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HOW TO MAKE A FILM
It takes complex financing, investment and the work of many people to bring creative ideas to the big screen. We’ve just uploaded a new infographic showing all the steps involved, from pre-finan......
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CW! IN THE EUROPEAN VOICE
If you’re based in Brussels, you’ve probably seen this week’s special report on Copyright in the European Voice. Several of CW!’s member organisations are quoted or mentioned: “IMPALA,......
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AGENCE EUROPE: CREATIVE SECTOR IN NO HURRY OVER COPYRIGHT WHITE PAPER
CW! has once again made it into the press – this time in an article by Agence Europe . The article takes up some of CW!’s core arguments: that copyright remains the foundation of the creative......
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