Veteran director Bertrand Tavernier has criticised vice-president Andrus Ansip’s intentions for the Digital Single Market.
Veteran French director Bertrand Tavernier has expressed concerns about the European Commission giving a carte blanche to Us cinema and the English language in its Digital Single Market (Dsm) strategy after meeting with vice-president Andrus Ansip.
Tavernier welcomed the fact that the commissioner spent more than an hour discussing the Dsm plans for copyright reform with him and UK filmmakers Roger Michell and Hugh Stoddart, who are fellow patrons from the board of the Society of Audiovisual Authors (Saa), but also raised concerns in a subsequent letter to Ansip.
“We have sometimes had the impression that, for some members of the European Commission, authors and creators hardly count and that their concerns are less important than the desires of industrialists,” Tavernier observed in the letter.
“That pipe manufacturers are better listened to and taken more seriously than all those who create...
Veteran French director Bertrand Tavernier has expressed concerns about the European Commission giving a carte blanche to Us cinema and the English language in its Digital Single Market (Dsm) strategy after meeting with vice-president Andrus Ansip.
Tavernier welcomed the fact that the commissioner spent more than an hour discussing the Dsm plans for copyright reform with him and UK filmmakers Roger Michell and Hugh Stoddart, who are fellow patrons from the board of the Society of Audiovisual Authors (Saa), but also raised concerns in a subsequent letter to Ansip.
“We have sometimes had the impression that, for some members of the European Commission, authors and creators hardly count and that their concerns are less important than the desires of industrialists,” Tavernier observed in the letter.
“That pipe manufacturers are better listened to and taken more seriously than all those who create...
- 7/23/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
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