PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS IN ACTION FOR COPYRIGHT

On Monday afternoon, June 8, the DDG, together with the NVJ (Dutch Association of Journalists), BNO (Dutch Designers' Association), the Federation of Photographers (BFN, GKf, PANL, SVFN), and the Screenwriters Network, is organizing a roundtable discussion with Members of Parliament to inform them about daily author practices. In this context, it is becoming increasingly difficult for journalists, photographers, designers, directors, screenwriters, and illustrators to conclude reasonable contracts with publishers and broadcast producers. We will advocate with the Members of Parliament, and in the presence of the national press, for the swift introduction of statutory regulations governing copyright contract law. The introduction of this law has been in the pipeline for some time, but in our view, it has remained on (or under) that pile for far too long.

On June 8 in Nieuwspoort, we want to map out the issues as up-to-date as possible. We need your help with this. We therefore invite you to return the completed online questionnaire no later than this coming Thursday evening, June 4, at midnight. You can do so anonymously. Go to http://tinyurl.com/enquetedgg. Filling it out will take no more than 10 minutes of your time, for which we thank you in advance.

The intention is that the professional organizations will not stop at this flash survey, but will continue to monitor your experiences in order to keep a concrete finger on the pulse over a longer period.

Yours sincerely,
Martijn Mewe



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