POLICY DOCUMENTS & LEAFLETS

• FSE and 12 other organisations issued the Declaration on Private Copying Remuneration,  to give a reminder of why private copying combined with fair remuneration remains essential (Sept. 2012). > read
  
  
• FSE co-signed a joint statement “Against Coercive Contractual Practices”, together with other creators’ groups, upon an initiative from the European Composers and Songwriters Alliance (ECSA) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ). Jan 2012.
  > read the statement

• Joint Proposal for amendments to the EP draft report on the online distribution of audiovisual works in the European Union. FIA/FERA/FSE/UNI-MEI. April 2012.
  > read the proposal

• FSE-FERA-SAA Joint Statement: AN END TO BUYOUTS IN EUROPE. Three important authors’ bodies are coming together to demand legislation for equitable rights payments for European film and television directors and screenwriters. They are calling for unwaivable enforceable rights, fair contracts and stronger resistance to arguments put out by the pirate lobby. 10 April 2012. > read the statement

• FSE reacted to Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes's speech "Who feeds the artist?" - Forum d'Avignon, France, 19/11/2011 > read our letter

• FSE contributed to the consultation on the "Green Paper on the online distribution of audiovisual works in the European Union: opportunities and challenges towards a digital single market", Nov. 2011 > read  ---  Consult the contributions of the Writers Guild of Sweden and of the Writers Guild of Great Britain.

• FSE co-signed Creators’ Statement on the Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on certain permitted uses of orphan works, Oct 2011 > read

• FSE contribution to EU consultation on “Challenges of the Digital Era for Film Heritage Institutions”, Sept 2011
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• FSE contribution to EU Public Consultation on “Assessing State aid for films and other audiovisual works”, Sept. 2011 > read
  

• Joint statement of the European federations representing cultural and creative workers, in favour of the Gallo report “on enforcement of intellectual property rights in the internal market”. September 2010 > read

• FSE's contribution to the 2010 EU Public Consultation on the Open Internet and Net Neutrality in Europe > read

• FSE's contribution to the 2009 EU Consultation on Creative Content in a European Digital Single Market
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• Joint statement of the European federations representing cultural and creative workers, on collective representation of freelancers in Europe. February 2010
  > read

• Policy Paper > download


• Manifesto (English) > download

• Declaration of the First World Conference of Screenwriters (Athens, Greece, 6&7 Nov. 09) > download

• Public hearing at European Parliament on the Audio-Visual Media Services Directive (1 June 2006), by Christina Kallas, President FSE > download

• Written Into the Picture, Investigating Screenwriters’ Lack of Visibility at Film Festivals (study) > download Full Report with Appendices (WARNING: 104 pages; 3.2 MB) or Main Report (20 pages)/Appendix 1/Appendix 2/Appendix 3/Appendix 4/Appendix 5/Appendix 6/Appendix 7/Appendix 8
  

• Leaflet on Effective State Aid for Screenwriting and Development > download

• Leaflet on VAT for screenwriters in Europe > download

• Some tips from the Writers Guild of America to increase the writers' status at film festivals > read
  

• Keynote address by Christina Kallas, President of the Federation of Screenwriters in Europe, at the Second World Conference of Screenwriters, Barcelona, 9th November 2012.

• An interview with Christina Kallas, President of the FSE, by Tom Green, published in the magazine of the Writers Guild of Great Britain on 09 January 2012.
  

• Book of the Conference on European Screenwriting, Thessaloniki, 21 & 22 Nov. 2006 > download (this document has been designed for duplex printing)
  

• Programme of the Conference on European Screenwriting, Thessaloniki, 21 & 22 Nov. 2006 > download

• Conclusions of FAGA and ALMA I^st Meeting of Spanish Scriptwriters, Valencia, 1-3 October 2010 > download