News & Resources - Creativity Works!

12 Aug 2024

Our Vision for 2024 -2029

Creativity Works! is Europe’s leading coalition representing our vibrant cultural and creative sectors. Our geographically-diverse, creative ecosystem-spanning membership sets us apart, bringing tog...

22 Nov 2023

Geo-blocking and cross-border access campaign

23 Feb 2022

The Digital Services Act: Letter to trilogue negotiators on key issues for the creative and cultural sectors

Dear trilogue negotiators, As the DSA trilogue negotiations unfold, Creativity Works! – a leading coalition of the cultural and creative sectors – would like to remind you of some key issues that...

15 Jun 2021

The Digital Services Act: building a safe, trustworthy, and diverse online environment for consumers and businesses

24 Apr 2020

The Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs), a strategic industry for Europe, call for a long-term approach to support and recovery measures

The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak is affecting all countries in Europe. The Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) are one of the sectors most affected – where thousands of businesses, most of th...

25 Sep 2019

Our Vision for 2019 – 2024

Creativity Works! is a leading coalition of Europe’s cultural and creative sectors. Our diverse membership includes writers, screenwriters, book publishers and retailers, picture agencies, music pu...

17 May 2019

Creativity Works! reiterates the importance of territorial exclusivity for the creation, financing, production and distribution of creative content

Re: Creativity Works! reiterates the importance of territorial exclusivity for the creation, financing, production and distribution of creative content Creativity Works! is a leading European coal...

25 Aug 2018

Copyright Plenary Vote: Big Tech Tactics Revealed

Following the July Plenary vote, and the intense disinformation campaign produced by Big Tech, journalists and policymakers alike have uncovered disturbing truths. “False Spam Campaig...

29 Jun 2018

CW! asks MEPs to uphold JURI mandate on Copyright Directive

Creativity Works! has joined 93 organisations from Europe’s creative and cultural sectors that are asking Members of the European Parliament to support the Legal Affairs (JURI) mandate on the Copyri...

23 Apr 2018

CW! calls on Member States to resolve fundamental issues in Copyright Directive

We respectfully call on you to reject recent harmful additions to the proposal that cancel out the progress made on copyright modernisation....

16 Apr 2018

Broadcasters Regulation – What is the market impact of CoO extension?

Introducing the CoO principle creates a default pan-European license and therefore weakens territorial exclusivity....

13 Apr 2018

Creativity Works! calls on Member States to refrain from restricting rightholders’ exclusive rights in favour of certain online platforms; discussions on Copyright Directive must continue to resolve fundamental issues

How will the text proposed by the Presidency roll-back and weaken rather than strengthen the protection of rights holders?...

11 Oct 2017

Creativity Works! urges Member States to stand firm on the scope of the Geo-blocking Regulation

We as Creativity Works!, a leading European coalition of the cultural and creative sectors, are writing to express our strongest support for the Council’s established position on the geo-blocking pr...

05 Sep 2017

Key Findings of the European Commission’s Eurobarometer 2015 on Cross-border Access to Online Content

Below is our summary of the key findings of the European Commission’s 2015 Eurobarometer Report on Cross-border access to online content. Please feel free to download our summary in PDF format....

23 Mar 2017

New EUIPO survey shows Europeans prefer legal offers to access digital content

Today, the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) published a study examining the perception of Intellectual Property (IP) rights amongst European citizens. In surveying the opinions o...

17 May 2016

Oxera and Oliver & Ohlbaum’s Study: The impact of cross-border access to audiovisual content on EU consumers

In a joint study, economic consultancies Oxera and O&O analysed the impacts of the European Commission’s proposals on the audiovisual sector, as part of its Digital Single Market Strategy. Al...

02 May 2016

Film festivals and markets – beyond the Red carpet

An interview with Anders Kjærhauge, Administrative Director of Zentropa Anders Kjærhauge is the Administrative Director of Zentropa, one of Scandinavia’s most well-known film production co...

03 Nov 2015

Therese comodini cachia mep: eu should adopt a market-led approach to copyright

In an article for the Parliament Magazine, Therese Comodini Cachia MEP made the case for a market-led approach to copyright. She wrote: “Creativity, cultural diversity and innovation could be Eur...

27 Mar 2015

Bascap publishes a report on ‘Roles and responsibilities on intermediaries’

The Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy (BASCAP) initiative—a special project of the International Chamber of Commerce— on 26^th of March published a new study setting out...

20 Mar 2015

Virginie Rozière mep on copyright and authors’ rights

In the debate over copyright, the rights of creators and their remuneration are one of the central concerns. Virginie Roziére MEP, member of the European Parliament’s Committee on the Internal...

19 Mar 2015

European film agencies urge EU to adopt evidence-based approach to copyright

The European Film Agencies have adopted a common resolution on the EU plans to reform the copyright framework. On what has become a highly sensitive issue, the EFAD urged the European institutions...

12 Mar 2015

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...

10 Feb 2015

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...

10 Feb 2015

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...

20 Jan 2015

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...

08 Jan 2015

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08 Dec 2014

New KPMG study: huge consumer choice for online Film & TTV 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...

04 Dec 2014

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-financ...

21 Nov 2014

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,...

11 Sep 2014

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...

19 Jun 2014

European Commission: Sport as a growth engine for EU economy

Sport’s economic contribution to the EU economy is impressive, and often underestimated. Following a high-level stakeholder meeting in Brussels, the European Commission says sport has a share in...

18 Jun 2014

Publishing as passion

Books are a passion for many people, and few will be more bibliophile than Pierre Dutilleul, Deputy CEO of the French publishing group Editis, and newly-elected President of the Federation of Euro...

13 Jun 2014

Cultural and creative industries: a boon for the EU’s external relations

A new report released by the European Commission argues there is a “very considerable potential” for culture in Europe’s international relations. Published on 10th June, it also explores the w...

28 May 2014

Great growth potential for digital content industry in Spain

A new study by Prof. Francesco Sandulli from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid finds that in the last five years, the digital content industry in Spain has grown by 50%,...

18 Apr 2014

CW! In the parliament magazine

CW! was featured in issue 388 of Brussels-based magazine The Parliament this week. World Intellectual Property Day takes place on 26th April – and we think it’s the perfect occasion to celebrat...

14 Apr 2014

Celebrating world IP day – 26th April

This year’s World IP Day will celebrate the global passion for cinema. As part of the celebrations, the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has interviewed filmmakers, film producers,...

09 Apr 2014

Did you know…

…that European commercial TV broadcasters invest 50% of their revenues back into the creation of more audiovisual content, and that the audiovisual industry employs 1 million people in Europe? CW...

13 Mar 2014

European copyright consultation: a rights holders’ perspective

Over on the Future of Copyright blog, Nathalie Falot covers the close of the Commission’s public consultation on the review of the EU copyright rules by looking at what rights holders have had to sa...