A GDA – Gestão dos Direitos dos Artistas will support Portuguese artists in the courts if the transposition to Portugal of the European directive on copyright and related rights for the Single Digital Market – the MUD Directive – does not guarantee all interpreters and performers a fair payment for online use of your works.
In a statement, the organization also leaves jabs to the Minister of Culture, Pedro Adão e Silva, and the deputies of the Parliamentary Committee for Culture, Communication, Youth and Sports.
The MUD Directive was legislated by the European Parliament and the European Commission “so that artists, authors and media in Europe can receive fair payment for the online use of their works (news, interviews and reports, in the case of average)”, can be read in the note.
According to the GDA, the transposition text submitted by Pedro Adão e Silva to the public consultation “completely betrays” the political purposes of justice and equity that were in the minds of European deputies and commissioners, unacceptably harming artists, authors and the media.
The president of the GDA also repudiates the “blank slate” that Pedro Adão e Silva makes of the legal contributions that the GDA sent him, since “these no longer include any claim for collective management of rights” and concentrated, only and only , at points that can guarantee artists the receipt of a “fair and proportionate” share of the income generated by their work.
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