International Federation of
Film Distributors' and Publishers' Associations

FIAD - through its membership of Creativity Works! - welcomes the 25 November Action Plan on Intellectual Property as a way of “making the most of the EU’s innovative potential”. Creativity Works! - welcomes the Commission’s commitment to strengthen further the existing IPR framework and supports its intention to step up efforts to curb pirated content. As piracy keeps growing both in size and scope, causing lasting damage on our ability to create, finance, invest in, produce

FIAD is proud to sign a letter alongside over 100 signatories covering the breadth of Europe's cultural and creative sector calling on the European Commission and governments of the EU Member States to fully integrate culture in their national recovery and resilience plans, allocating at the very least 2% of the RRF budgets to the CCSs, as called for by the European Parliament in its recent resolution on the Cultural Recovery of Europe. This should be monitored and stimulated