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Friday, October 12, 2012

Europe boosts film tourism...

EuroScreen launches new website
By ROBERT MITCHELL

LONDON -- EuroScreen, a three-year Euros1.9 billion ($2.5 billion) cross-European film tourism initiative, launched its new website Tuesday.

The project, funded by the Interregional Cooperation Program (INTERREG IVC), has been created to improve policies between the production sector and tourism industry across eight European markets: U.K., Spain, Italy, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovenia and Sweden.

Scheduled to run until 2014, EuroScreen will deliver research and data to improve the effectiveness of policies between the screen and tourism sectors, with the aim of achieving greater economic and cultural benefits for both.

Among other materials, the new EuroScreen website (www.euroscreen.org.uk) will offer visitors access to information about the latest news and developments in screen tourism, and provides downloadable policy material and other publications emerging from the project.

The U.K.'s Film London is the official lead partner for the initiative, working with international partners including the Apulia Film Commission in Italy, Bucharest -- Ilfov Regional Development Agency in Romania, FTZ -- Fondazzjoni Temi Zamit in Malta, RARR -- Rzeszow Regional Development Agency in Poland, the Municipality of Ystad and Lund University, Department of Service Management in Sweden, Maribor Development Agency in Slovenia and Pro Malaga -- Local Public Agency for Economic Development in Malaga, Spain.

The INTERREG IVC program is financed by the European Union's Regional Development Fund to help different areas of Europe to work together and to share experience and good practice in the areas of innovation, the knowledge economy, the environment and risk prevention.

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Toronto 2012: European Film Promotion Backs Sales of Toronto Titles...

"Great Expectations," "Hannah Arendt," "Paradise: Love" and "A Hijacking" are some of the European films benefiting from the EFP's film sales support program.

BERLIN – 54 European films from 19 different countries screening at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival will receive support from the European Film Promotion's Film Sales Support program, which provides cash to European companies and films to support their international distribution.

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A total of 30 different sales and 11 production companies will benefit from the $275,000 (€200,000) in funds earmarked for promotional campaigns of European films. Some of the titles that will receive support include Margarette von Trotta's Hannah Arendt, which The Match Factory is selling in Toronto; Hanway Films' Great Expectations from director Mike Newell; Cannes Competition title Paradise: Love from Ulrich Seidl, which the Coproduction Office is selling internationally; Michael Winterbottom's Everyday, sold by Bankside Films; and A Hijacking from Danish director Tobias Lindholm, which TrustNordisk is selling worldwide.

In total nearly 140 European titles will screen at various sections at the Toronto festival this year. TIFF is the flagship partner of the Film Sales Support program, which is backed by the European Union's Media Programme.

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Google Pulls Plug on TV Ad Sales System...

The TV Ads in Adwords service, which faced industry resistance, will come to an end later this year.

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Google is pulling the plug on an online exchange that tried to establish the online giant as a major player in the sale of TV ad spots.

In a blog post late Thursday, Google said it would end its TV Ads in Adwords service later this year.
Google has been successfully selling paid-search ads online and wanted to push into the TV ad space, but faced resistance from established players in the TV and advertising communities.
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Hallmark Channel and NBCUniversal's cable channels became early partners, hoping to draw more local advertisers that Google has relationships with. But the Google ad venture was dealt a setback in 2010 when NBCUniversal ended its deal a year early.
"In 2007, we launched Google TV Ads in AdWords to bring digital buying and measurement technologies to traditional TV advertising," Shishir Mehrotra, vp of product at Google's YouTube, wrote in the blog post late Thursday. "Since then, lots of our clients have bought traditional TV advertising for the first time. However, video is increasingly going digital, and users are now watching across numerous devices."
Added Mehrotra: "The future of video advertising is extremely bright, and we're excited to devote ourselves fully to it."
The service's staff would be moved "to other areas at Google," the post said without providing more details.

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Europe Court: Copyright Holders Can Demand Pirates' Personal Information

Europe Court: Copyright Holders Can Demand Pirates' Personal Information

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In what could prove a precedent-setting case, the court ruled in favor of five Swedish publishers who filed suit against Swedish Internet service provider ePhone to force it to hand over the name and address of a user who allegedly uploaded 27 audio books to an FTP server, from where they were illegally distributed online. The case went all the way to Sweden's supreme court.

In their ruling, the European judges said private data could be used in copyright cases if the collection of the information was allowed by national law in individual European Union member states. Currently the law varies greatly between individual European countries as to when use of such personal data is justified
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Euro Data Protection Group Attacks ACTA...

The independent authority warns that the multinational anti-piracy treaty could violate human rights and European law.

COLOGNE, Germany - An independent advisory group has warned that ACTA, the multinational anti-piracy treaty which the European Parliament is set to vote into law later this year, could violate European laws protecting privacy and human rights.

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The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), an independent authority that advises European bodies on data protection issues, said that the treaty, as written, is too vague and could result in the violation of individual rights if passed unchanged.
ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, is a multinational treaty that aims to create a new global governing body to regulate and enforce copyright laws. The agreement has been signed by the U.S., Canada, Japan, Australia and South Korea, among others, and was unanimously approved by the countries of the European Union in January this year.
But in an opinion published this week, the EDPS said ratifying ACTA could open the doors to indiscriminate or widespread monitoring of users' Internet behavior and electronic communications which could violate Europe's charter of fundamental rights.
In particular, the group said ACTA does not clearly define what behavior would be criminalized under the treaty and who would be tasked with enforcing it. EDPS warned that if the treaty was interpreted too widely, it could criminalize private, non-profit data sharing in a way that could violate freedom of speech and information laws. It also expressed concern that vague language in the treaty meant that non-judicial bodies could potentially carry out widespread, indiscriminate sweeps of Internet traffic, fishing for suspicious behavior.
"While more international cooperation is needed for the enforcement of Intellectual Property (IP) rights, the means envisaged must not come at the expense of the fundamental rights of individuals," said Giovanni Buttarelli, an assistant at the EDPS. "A right balance between the fight against IP infringements and the rights to privacy and data protection must be respected. It appears that ACTA has not been fully successful in this respect."
If the European Parliament votes to approve ACTA, the treaty will still have to be ratified by individual European countries before coming into force.
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Subsidies for U.S. Productions at Stake...

European Commission opens public consultation into state aid funding.

LONDON – The multi-billion dollar annual support for the making and distributing of movies provided by European Union member states has come under public scrutiny.

The European Commission has launched a public consultation as the first step of a review of the criteria used to apply European state aid rules to the cash support from member states.

Areas in the spotlight from the old laws include competing to attract major film productions using state aid and supporting activities other than production.

Interested parties have until the end of September to submit their comments.

Commission vp in charge of competition policy Joaquín Almunia said: "Before designing the future state aid rules for this important sector, my colleagues and I want to gather views about what the common European objective of such support should be. For example, does a subsidy race to attract major US productions undermine the effectiveness of aid to support smaller European films?"

Alumnia will also be asking if the rules should "go beyond encouraging the production of more films" and if support is needed to encourage filmmakers to explore the possibilities of the digital revolution?"

One of the big issues on the consultation will be the competition among some European states to use state aid to attract inward investment from large-scale mainly U.S. film production companies.

European Union member states provide an estimated €2.3 billion ($3.3 billion) per year in film support.

Of that €1.3 billion ($1.85 billion) in grants and soft loans and €1 billion ($1.4 billion) in tax incentives. Around 80% of this is for film production.

The U.K. is among the top five European countries offering this support along with France, Germany, Italy and Spain.

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Mayor of London Confirms Film London Funding...

oris Johnson will continue to fund the agency to the tune of $2.1 million for 2011/2012, a 22% decline from last year's level.
LONDON -- Government-backed movie agency Film London breathed a sigh of relief after securing £1.3 million ($2.1 million) in funding from the London mayor's office for 2011/2012 despite the total repping a 22 percent drop from last year's level.
The agency remained upbeat about the commitment from the capital's mayor amid tough economic climes that has seen subsidy funding slashed across a host of arts bodies.
Film London's CEO Adrian Wootton said: "This funding settlement allows us to deliver new opportunities for the capital's aspiring film-makers and enrich the city's film culture."
The cash helps secure a future for Film London initiatives including the micro-budget production program Microwave, the sales event London U.K. Film Focus and the annual Production Finance Market.
As of April 1, Film London will be taking over the UKFC's responsibilities for inward investment -- including absorbing the office of the U.K. Film Commissioner.

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Spanish Court Rules Digital Tax is Illegal...

Court says canon is illegal because of irregularities in the bureaucratic process.

MADRID -- Spain's National Court has ruled Spain's so-called digital canon, designed to compensate authors for revenue lost from private copy, is illegal because of irregularities in the bureaucratic process.

The court did not rule whether the controversial tax instated in 2003 on all electronics and CD, DVD and MP3 sales was legal, only that the process for collecting and distributing the funds did not follow pre-establish processes.

The ruling comes shortly after the EU's October ruling that Spain's digital canon was "indiscriminately applied" thus illegal.

Spain's Culture Minister, Angeles Gonzalez-Sinde, defended the digital tax.
"All it does is say that the 2008 order, which establishes the rates and the procedure for compensation, didn't follow the proper legislative procedure and has deficiencies," Gonzalez-Sinde said. "The ministry already has started working on this and the different sides have been meeting since January."
Critics of the tax argue it is outdated, confuses the consumer, is unequally applied and encourages piracy.
Spain's main opposition party has said it would eliminate the digital tax if elected.
"To remove the canon, first you would have to change the Intellectual Property Law, which we see more as a creative property norm. Present legislation is outdated because it was created for the context of the 1990s. There are other ways to compensate creators and we'll go even further. We won't just remove the indiscriminate application of the canon, but would change the overall management system of the authors' rights," the PP's Jose Maria Lassalle told Spanish daily El Pais.

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On Location: Serbia launches new film incentive...

With its low-cost labor and scenic locales, Serbia has long been a popular European location for filming. Now, facing rising competition from neighboring countries such as Hungary, the Czech Republic and Germany, the country wants to up its game.

The Serbian government has approved a new film incentive program specifically targeted to foreign productions. The program provides a 15% cash rebate on goods and services purchased in Serbia and a 12% rebate on labor expenses, including foreign crew and talent. (Serbia previously offered a far more limited incentive: a refund on value taxes that companies paid in the country.)

There is no cap per project but the program may be constrained by limited resources. A spokeswoman for the Serbia Film Commission said only $2 million had been allocated for the first phase of the program through Oct. 31.

Serbia was once one of the busiest film destinations in Europe before civil war broke out in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. The Serbian film industry has been making a comeback in recent years, however, and in 2010 hosted $30 million in productions, including the Ralph Fiennes-directed "Coriolanus," starring Gerard Butler and Vanessa Redgrave, and Europa Corp.'s "Lockout," with Guy Pearce and Maggie Grace.

"With existing cost savings of up to 25%, our excellent crews, our equipment and locations, we were able to attract the attention of international producers,'' Serbia Film Commissioner Ana Ilic said in a statement. "With the Serbia Film Incentive, the rationale for filming in the country became that much more compelling."

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Industry News: Canadians Thrive as Soft Money Well Runs Dry in U.S. and Europe...

Canada sees foreign location shooting rebound as Los Angeles producers seek stability as tax credits shrink or end in rival U.S. states and Europe.
TORONTO – With the well running dry stateside, the Canadian production sector is rebounding on stable film tax credits on offer to Los Angeles producers shooting north of the border.

"For the first time we're juggling stages. We've got conflicts in episode TV shoots. It's a great problem to have," Paul Bronfman, chairman of Pinewood Toronto Studios, said Tuesday from February Freeze, the annual trade show for sound, lighting and video technology aficianados in Toronto.

Guillermo del Toro's At the Mountains of Madness 3D, to be produced by James Cameron, is prepping at Pinewood Toronto Studios ahead of a summer shoot to start on July 4. And Sony Pictures' Total Recall, which is set to start production in May, will also park at Pinewood in Toronto.

It's not so much that the production environment in Canada is rock solid, as rival locales in the U.S. and Europe look shaky as governments end or trim tax credits and other lucrative subsidies to woo Hollywood to their backyards.

Bronfman insisted Hollywood producers experienced the "good, the bad and the ugly" of shooting elsewhere overseas in search of front-end production savings, and are now returning to Canada for certainty and stability. "People know what they're getting when they shoot here," he insisted. Canada has lost something it isn't likely to win back: a low Canadian dollar that meant steep savings for Los Angeles producers that shot here until the loonie and greenback recently went to parity. So the Canadian industry is rolling out a contingency plan: higher and permanent tax credits, and diversified digital technologies.

An example: forget expensive honeywagons or 18-wheel production trailers. Canadian camera equipment supplier William F. White International is rolling out viral vans, or a compact production van digital producers can rent for run-and-gun filmmaking on music videos or webisodes.

Jonathan Root, manager of Whites Interactive, said digital produces these days require less gear and more agility on location shoots. "Mobility is key. Filmmakers just drive away," he said.

A strong and mature Canadian production sector is also attracting American retailers of digital technology.

Bruce Richardson, president of Videolink Inc., was at February Freeze showing off the Texas-made Tricaster HD production studio that shrinks a traditional truck to deliver live sports or entertainment events into a compact box. "This is an IPTV solution that's affordable," Richardson said.

Recent Canadian customers of the HD production technology include broadcasters like the CBC, CTV and Corus Entertainment, smaller ethnic broadcasters and pro sports organizations like the Toronto Maple Leafs and Raptors

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Friday, October 12, 2012

Europe boosts film tourism...

Saturday, September 1, 2012

Toronto 2012: European Film Promotion Backs Sales of Toronto Titles...

Google Pulls Plug on TV Ad Sales System...

Monday, April 30, 2012

Europe Court: Copyright Holders Can Demand Pirates' Personal Information

Euro Data Protection Group Attacks ACTA...

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Subsidies for U.S. Productions at Stake...

Monday, March 28, 2011

Mayor of London Confirms Film London Funding...

Spanish Court Rules Digital Tax is Illegal...

On Location: Serbia launches new film incentive...

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Industry News: Canadians Thrive as Soft Money Well Runs Dry in U.S. and Europe...