On 18 September, members of the European Visual Artists (EVA), the European umbrella organization of copyright societies for the fine arts, illustration, photography, design, architecture and other visual works and stakeholders will meet to exchange ideas.

The background to the one-day conference "European Authors' Rights in the Digital Era - EU Copyright Directive" are the EU Copyright Directive and the challenges of digitalization.

Programme
Tuesday, 18 September 2018
Steigenberger Hotel Herrenhof
Herrengasse 10, Wien 1/Vienna, Austria

09:00 – 09:30 Registration

09:30 – 10:00 Opening speeches – Key notes – Welcomes
Vincent van den Eijnde, EVA President, welcome & moderation (whole event)
Evelyn Regner, Member of European Parlament (S&D)
Günter Schönberger, CEO Bildrecht, Austria

10:00 – 10:45 Panel 1 – “Value Gap – it’s meaning for the visual repertoire”
Javier Gutiérrez Vicén, VEGAP, Spain, introduction & moderation
Silvie Aigner, Editor in Chief, PARNASS, art magazine, Austria 
Regina Maria Anzenberger, artist, Founder AnzenbergerAgency and AnzenbergerGallery
Alexander von Arotin, artist, Austria, France

10:45 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 11:45 Panel 2 – “Exceptions and Limitations – Cultural Heritage and Educational Institutions”
Günter Schönberger, CEO Bildrecht, Austria, introduction & moderation
Michel Walter, IP rights lawyer, Author, Professor (University Vienna & Krems)
Hans Petschar, Director picture library & graphic collection, National Library
Thomas Matyk, Head of Repro Department , MAK Austrian Museum of Applied Arts

11:45 – 12:30 Panel 3 – “Extended collective management”
Mats Lindberg, Bildupphovsrätt, Sweden, introduction & moderation
Jonas Holm, IP rights lawyer, Sweden
Thomas Feichtner, designer, Austria

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 – 14:30 BREXIT: What’s at stake for visual artists
Gilane Tawadros, Chief Executive DACS, United Kingdom

14:30 – 15:15 Panel 4 – “Search engines”
Marie-Anne Ferry-Fall, ADAGP, France, introduction & moderation
Silke von Lewinski, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute, Germany
Luzia Strohmayer-Nacif, Head of picture agency, APA-DeFacto, Austria
Alexander von Arotin, artist, Austria, France

15:15 - 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 – 16:15 Panel 5 – “Closing the framing loop hole”
Anke Schierholz, VG Bild-Kunst, Germany, introduction & moderation
Silke von Lewinski, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute, Germany
Lois Lammerhuber, artist/photographer, Austria
Gerhard Hinterleitner, Managing Director at ASAblanca Media GmbH

16:15 – 16:45 Wrapping up – conclusions
Carola Streul, secretary general, EVA – European Visual Artists
Vincent van den Eijnde, EVA President
tba, Der Standard, Austrian daily Newspaper

18:00 reception
The event is followed by a reception at mumok Museum
MuseumsQuartier, Museumsplatz 1, Wien 7 / Vienna