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Our vision
Europe is an artistic and cultural powerhouse
The MPA members have been an important part of Europe’s cultural ecology for a hundred years and contribute greatly to it. Our vision is for a rich and diverse media environment in which all players can thrive.
To that end, we advocate an approach based on three key principles — flexibility, proportionality, and legal certainty; and make eight recommendations to support the continued success and sustainability of the audiovisual sector in Europe.
Our Policy Principles
Flexibility
Legal certainty
Proportionate regulation
- Ensure that production partners retain the freedom to reach agreements regarding intellectual property (IP) on projects, that reflect their appetite for risk and their individual priorities.
- Continue to license on an exclusive territorial basis, which is the foundation for financing, producing, marketing and distributing culturally diverse AV works.
- Provide conditions for competitive and diverse consumer offers, adapted to audiences’ needs and preferences.
- Protect content creation and support legal services.
- Maintain stability and predictability of the recently updated body of EU copyright law.
- Refrain from imposing any network fees regime that results in direct or indirect payments from the AV sector to providers of electronic communication networks.
- Support a healthy framework for co-productions by maintaining the existing definition of European Works.
- Prioritise flexibility when considering financial obligations, in order to avoid inflationary effects and prevent damage to the diversity of AV services offered to audiences.
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