IMPALA’S DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION FREE TRAINING FOR MEMBERS – 29/09 10AM CET
This session will focus on ‘Inclusive Practices for your Music Business’. The agenda will cover: Inclusive Recruitment Practice (Arit, 1 hour, same session as in January 2021), and How to Create an EDI Policy Step by Step (Vick, 2 hours). It is open to all IMPALA members and it is free!
NORWEGIAN TRADE BODY FONO RECEIVES IMPALA’S OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION AWARD
FONO receives IMPALA’s Outstanding Contribution Award for its great work in the Norwegian and European independent music sector at its annual meeting, celebrating its 40th anniversary.
IMPALA LAUNCHES NEW CLIMATE PROJECT CO-FUNDED BY THE EU
Later this month, IMPALA will be launching the first planned activities of its new Climate Training and Standards project IMPACTS. This EU funded project aims to build new climate literacy capacity for independent music companies across Europe to help them lower their carbon footprint.
IMPALA LAUNCHES MEMBER SURVEY ON COLLECTING SOCIETIES
Today, IMPALA launched a member survey on collecting societies.
The survey, prepared by our collecting society committee, aims to gather feedback from IMPALA’s members across Europe on how they rate their respective collecting societies.
IMPALA POINTS TO STREAMING REFORM AND FRENCH INDUSTRY AGREEMENT AS IT SPEAKS OUT AGAINST EQUITABLE REMUNERATION
With several countries still to implement the 2019 EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, IMPALA urges governments to implement article 17 and the performer provisions swiftly and faithfully according to the text of the directive.
IMPALA OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION AWARD GOES TO KEES VAN WEIJEN
IMPALA’s summer honours go to President of STOMP and former IMPALA president Kees van Weijen for his outstanding contribution to the European independent music sector
IMPALA’S HELEN SMITH: ‘WE DON’T BELIEVE EQUITABLE REMUNERATION IS EQUITABLE AT ALL’
Last week, the Belgian Parliament adopted the local transposition of the Copyright Directive and by doing so also introduced a new right to equitable remuneration for authors and performers to be managed via the collective management system. Read IMPALA’s reaction here.
BELGIAN COPYRIGHT LAW – ONE STEP FORWARD, TWO STEPS BACK
Today, the Belgian Federal Parliament adopted new rules implementing the 2019 Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market. IMPALA, the European association of independent music companies, representing over 6,000 music SMEs across Europe, commented on the new rules.
IMPALA’S DIGITAL HOUR WITH CMU – QUICK FIRE WEBINAR – 20/06 – 3PM CET
Our monthly quick-fire webinar on the One Step Ahead project will take place on 20th June at 3pm CET. The quick-fire editions of IMPALA’s Digital Hour with CMU are all about speedy updates on recent and upcoming One Step Ahead reports. It’s also the opportunity for members to ask questions and share ideas that will inform and influence our future research.
IMPALA RELEASES ITS REPORT ON FIRST DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION SURVEY FOR THE INDEPENDENT MUSIC SECTOR TO ROUND UP EUROPEAN DIVERSITY MONTH
IMPALA is releasing a report on the first diversity and inclusion survey of the independent sector, “Towards a more diverse and inclusion independent music sector” to close its programme for European Diversity Month.