NEW CIAGP President

At the annual CIAGP congress which was held on 16th and 17th September 2009 in Madrid, the Spanish painter and sculptor, Andrés Nagel was elected by unanimous vote as President for a mandate of 2 years, once renewable for further 2 years. The artist lives and works in San Sebastian and made an international carreer with numerous exhibitions world-wide.

CIAGP members thanked the leaving President, the Mexican painter Julio Curasco Breton for his professional and devoted work of the past 4 years.

CIAGP is traditionally presided by an artist.

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"Authors of fine arts and photography in a globalising world of cultures" - EVA 10 years birthday was celebrated in Brussels

At the occasion of celebrating 10 years since founding of a registered EVA representation in Brussels a jubilee Conference was held on the 20 September 2007. The venue of the event was the historical building of the well-known Belgian sculptor Jules LAGAE in rue Michelange. 5 high profile speakers were invited and gave a complex overview of new directions in EC and EU policies concerning Cultural Diversity and its impact on the Lisbon agenda goals, possible directions concerning aspects of copyright in the Information society, collective management for visual artists and relevance of competition rules, the increasing importance of the EP and its call for more coherence between the policies of different EC services and the importance of protection and promotion of culture in the frame of the draft convention for the EU as well as in International free trade agreements.
Our guest speakers were Eric Baptiste, Director General of CISAC, Enrique Barón Créspo, MEP, delegate to the IGC 2007 and President of the IYMF, Ruth Hieronymi, MEP, member of the Culture Committee, Tilman Lüder, Head of the copyright Unit in DG Markt and Xavier Troussard, Head of the copyright Unit in DG Culture.
The Conference was chaired and moderated by Gerhard Pfennig, President of EVA and Carola Streul, Secretary General.

"Visual Art Societies in the World Community of Collective Management Societies" by Eric Baptiste, general director of CISAC

Panel impressions of "Authors of fine arts and photography in a globalising world of cultures".

All photos by Firmin De Maître © Maitrise SOFAM

Enrique Barón Crespo, Eric Baptiste, Gerhard Pfennig, Tilman Lüder, Ruth Hieronymi

Eric Baptiste, Carola Streul, Gerhard Pfennig

Carola Streul, Gerhard Pfennig, Tilman Lüder, Ruth Hieronymi

Xavier Troussard

EVA celebrates its 10th birthday with a conference under the title "Authors of fine arts and photography in a globalizing world of cultures"

EVA was founded in 1997 with an office in Brussels. Since then a lot of work and exchange have been done. Together with all founding members and the new members and observers the EVA office organises a conference under the title: "Authos of fine arts and photography in a globalizing world of cultures"

Find invitation and programme here.

The agenda was updated on 18 September

The Fondacion Arte et Derecho published a manifest on authors' rights and against abusive contracts.

The Manifest Of Artistic Creation

The amended Norwegian copyright law is effective since 1 st January 2007.

The most important aspects of the implementation are:

• 5% royalty on works up to 50.000 €
• compulsory collective managment
• simultaneous introduction of the resale right for deceased artists
• application threshold of 3000€

BONO is the entitled society to collect and distribute money from resale right.

Today the amended Belgian law on resale right has been published in the official Belgain gazette Le Moniteur Belge/Belgisch Staatsblad

Find here the text of the amended resale right published on 23rd of January 2007.

French artists and their organisations express their concerns regarding the project of the amended resale right in France

Please read the press release: "Les auteurs des arts visuels dénoncent le projet de décret relatif au droit de suite"

Loi droit d'auteur et droit de suite Art. 48

EVA wishes all members, observers, friends, colleagues and visitors a happy new year and will celebrates it's 10th birthday in 2007.

Obituary Ben Vandooren

Ben Vandoorne was one of the first photo reporters who at an early stage realised the importance of copyright protection for their profession. Moreover he was clear-sighted enough to emphasis the interests of Belgian photo reporters organised within SOFAM - a collecting society he had founded - also in international contexts: in order to support the developing team work in Europe he early sought co-operation with those collecting societies for arts and photography having been founded in the 80s. With his professional knowledge Ben Vandoorne invaluably contributed to the copyright development for visual artists within the EU member states, but also on the level of Community legislation. He was an intriguing character, friendly and helpful, but also assertive and self-confident in representing the interests of his organisation's members. He was a distinctive friend whom we will always remember.

Bonn, September 2006

Prof. Dr Gerhard Pfennig, EVA president

Mot d'adieu de Bob Coecke, Vice President de la SOFAM

Since today the amended resale right is implemented in Germany

the new legislation in German

EVA and CISAC conference on “The situation of Visual Arts collecting societies in Central and Eastern Europe” took place on 21 and 22 September 2006 in Budapest.

21 collective management societies met for exchange of know-how and best practice models as well as to compare the

situation of the authors' rights and the visual arts collecting societies in the different represented countries. In depth

country reports allowed to draw a clear overview of the different national legislations concerning ‘droit de suite' and the

implementation of Directive 84/2001. The panel contributions discussed rights and exceptions for museums and

educational institutions following the implementation of directive 29/2001 in different European countries. After the

presentation of OnLineArt (http://onlineart.info/) that offers the administration of Internet licenses in one-stop-shop

other new approaches for the administration of remuneration rights such as reprography, cable and satellite, public

lending and renting were presented and discussed.

Related speeches and contributions:

Briefing on EU politics

EVA working group on 'Resale right - droit de suite'

Slovak Republik - Repography

Spain - Satellite and Cable

Denmark - Resale right

France - exceptions for museums implementing Directive 29/2001

Germany - Museums: Licensing and enforcement of primary uses following the implementation of EC Directive 29/2001

Hungary - Resale Right

Administration of Internet licenses - OnLineArt

Improving international cooperation - public Lending Right and Renting