Geo-blocking and territoriality were high on the agenda when European Commissioner Andrus Ansip met with members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Culture and Education for an ¨exchange of views¨ in Strasbourg.
During the 90-minute grilling on Monday evening (April 27), Ansip repeatedly detailed his plans for copyright reform as part of the European Commission’s Digital Single Market Strategy to be unveiled in Brussels next week.
¨I would like to ask for cross-border access to the content and portability of the content, but it does not mean that we are wanting to destroy this principle of territoriality,¨ he explained.
¨It does not mean that after this reform there will only be pan-European licenses. If, for example, in a smaller Member State, film producers are expecting that the interest to buy those rights of the films is only in the neighbouring Member States, this will be acceptable. There is no need to sell pan-European licenses, no need to...
During the 90-minute grilling on Monday evening (April 27), Ansip repeatedly detailed his plans for copyright reform as part of the European Commission’s Digital Single Market Strategy to be unveiled in Brussels next week.
¨I would like to ask for cross-border access to the content and portability of the content, but it does not mean that we are wanting to destroy this principle of territoriality,¨ he explained.
¨It does not mean that after this reform there will only be pan-European licenses. If, for example, in a smaller Member State, film producers are expecting that the interest to buy those rights of the films is only in the neighbouring Member States, this will be acceptable. There is no need to sell pan-European licenses, no need to...
- 4/28/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
The Hamptons International Film Festival also unveils its annual Golden Starfish competition titles.
The Hamptons International Film Festival (Hiff) is to honour filmmaker Joel Schumacher with the Golden Starfish Lifetime Achievement in Directing Award at its 22nd edition (Oct 9-13).
The director of The Lost Boys, Batman Forever and more recently two episodes of House of Cards, will also take part in a “conversation with” session on Oct 11, where he will be also be presented with the award.
Oscar-winning actress Hilary Swank will also be in conversation at the festival on Oct 12, where she will receive the Creative Impact in Acting Award.
Swank won Best Actress Academy Award’s in 2000 and 2005 for Boys Don’t Cry and Million Dollar Baby, and her latest performance in The Homesman will be seen when the film is screened at Hiff.
In addition, Hiff has revealed the 20 films from 15 countries selected for this year’s Golden Starfish competition, including the Us...
The Hamptons International Film Festival (Hiff) is to honour filmmaker Joel Schumacher with the Golden Starfish Lifetime Achievement in Directing Award at its 22nd edition (Oct 9-13).
The director of The Lost Boys, Batman Forever and more recently two episodes of House of Cards, will also take part in a “conversation with” session on Oct 11, where he will be also be presented with the award.
Oscar-winning actress Hilary Swank will also be in conversation at the festival on Oct 12, where she will receive the Creative Impact in Acting Award.
Swank won Best Actress Academy Award’s in 2000 and 2005 for Boys Don’t Cry and Million Dollar Baby, and her latest performance in The Homesman will be seen when the film is screened at Hiff.
In addition, Hiff has revealed the 20 films from 15 countries selected for this year’s Golden Starfish competition, including the Us...
- 9/10/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
A screenshot from All we Share
A guest post from Mico Tatalovic, in Locarno, Switzerland.
Strolling through the narrow streets of Locarno, a picturesque lake-side town surrounded by the Alps, on the way to screenings, one feels the buzz and quaintness that come with the festival’s prestige and location – but, perhaps unexpectedly, one also gets a lot of negative vibe that comes from what appear to be frequent hitches in the festival’s organisation.
It was during an over-long wait – packed like commuters in a long queue in a hallway without air conditioning – and in between the viewers’ booing and shouting ‘let us in’ in Italian, that I overheard a Us film distributor complaining about the poor selection of shorts here. She was in the same screening as me, seeing one of the ‘Pardi di domani’ (Leopards of tomorrow) screenings of talented upcoming directors’ short and medium-length films split...
A guest post from Mico Tatalovic, in Locarno, Switzerland.
Strolling through the narrow streets of Locarno, a picturesque lake-side town surrounded by the Alps, on the way to screenings, one feels the buzz and quaintness that come with the festival’s prestige and location – but, perhaps unexpectedly, one also gets a lot of negative vibe that comes from what appear to be frequent hitches in the festival’s organisation.
It was during an over-long wait – packed like commuters in a long queue in a hallway without air conditioning – and in between the viewers’ booing and shouting ‘let us in’ in Italian, that I overheard a Us film distributor complaining about the poor selection of shorts here. She was in the same screening as me, seeing one of the ‘Pardi di domani’ (Leopards of tomorrow) screenings of talented upcoming directors’ short and medium-length films split...
- 8/10/2014
- by Alison Frank
- The Moving Arts Journal
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