🧵Mega thread time🧵
We'll be tweeting here about some of the huge benefits of authors' societies and the collective management model over the course of the next few weeks. Starting with a short video on the basics.
More info on authors' societies here: bit.ly/2TdbphP
Authors' societies help sustain the cycle of creativity, which benefits creators, users and society at large. Here are 🖐 key points! #HereForCreators
Sticking with the basics, let's get into some of the numbers behind European authors' societies
✅Royalties
✅No. of creative works registered per year
✅Streaming
✅Funding new creation
More on the Transfer of Value 👉bit.ly/2IPcEC7 #HereForCreators
🔵What were European authors’ societies’ royalty collections for 2019?
🔵What can they tell us about creators’ earnings today?
🔵How is the revenue pie divided?🥧
The chart below reveals 3️⃣ key talking points that we analyse in more detail here 👉bit.ly/3mwYMet👈
Some more key numbers from European authors' societies for 2019. Helping to promote more creators and generate new creative works - particularly pertinent to all of us trapped at home after another wave of lockdowns! #HereForCreators
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1/7 🇪🇺This Thursday the European Parliament will vote on an important resolution: “The Cultural Recovery of Europe”
GESAC thanks @laurencefarreng & @RenewEurope, who initiated the text, which is now the result of a consensus among 6 political groups in the @Europarl_EN
2/7 🦠This is the first resolution related to culture since the outbreak of #COVID19. It comes at a time when the recovery budget is being finalised and conveys the current state of play and needs of the creative sector.
Here are some of the key takeaways:
3/7 🔵It expresses solidarity with creators, who have suffered tremendously due to the cancellation of all social events, and pays homage to their creative efforts under difficult circumstances. authorsocieties.eu/covid-19-respo…