1. President
ARNE KÖNIG
General Secretary
AIDAN WHITE
Co-Directors
RENATE SCHROEDER & MARC GRUBER
Authors’ Rights in the Digital Age
A Fair Deal for Journalists
Speakers’ Profiles
Moschos Voitsidis has been working as a Patricia Estevezis is a journalist, researcher
newspaper and radio journalist for 32 years and and communications strategist. She is a member
is currently a columnist for the city’s largest daily of the Federal Executive Council of the Spanish
Agelioforos. He is a twice-elected member of the Federation of Journalist Unions (FeSP) and the
Steering Committee of the European Federation Catalonian Journalist Union (SPC), where she is
of Journalists and is on his second term as the in charge of communications strategies and
President of the Journalists’ Union of Macedonia projects. She worked as a freelance journalist in
and Thrace Daily Newspapers. He is also a the past 15 years for the print media,
qualified attorney in Greece. He speaks English, specialising technology, health and social
German, Serbo-Croatian and Spanish. issues. Having seen the abuse of authors’ rights
by media outlets, she soon develops her interest
in this field. Mrs. Estévez holds a Master degree
Arne König has been working as a journalist for in Gender Studies, and is a PhD candidate in
the print and broadcasting media since mid-70s. International Relations.
He has dedicated his professional life reporting
on human rights and media issues. König is now
a full-time unionist. He is the Vice-President of Pamela Morinière is the Authors’ Rights,
the Swedish Union of Journalists and the Gender and Project officer of the European
President of the European Federation of Federation of Journalists. She holds a Master
Journalists, the largest trade federation in degree in Intellectual property law and a diploma
Europe. in journalism. Prior to joining the IFJ she worked
in the copyright unit of DG internal market of the
European commission and in an ICT
Robert Hahn is the head of rights and content consultancy. Pamela has run various campaigns
acquisition at Guardian News & Media (GNM) in to support authors’ rights systems for journalists
the UK. He is also the publisher of the Guardian, across Europe and is also heavily involved in the
the Observer and Guardian.co.uk. He has been IFJ campaign for Ethical journalism.
working in the rights management professional
for 15 years with experience in operational rights
management, content commissioning, Carole Croella is a Counselor of the World
contributor relations, editorial compliance and Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO),
training. His recent works focus particularly on Copyright Law Division. Before joining WIPO, Ms
digital media and mobile platforms; the Croella was an officer at the Copyright Unit of
negotiation of cross-platform collective the European Commission from 1992 to 2000.
agreements, commercial contracts and talent She specialises in copyright and related rights in
agreements; and GNM's content and rights the digital environment, management of rights
management systems. and moral rights. She has actively involved in the
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2. President
ARNE KÖNIG
General Secretary
AIDAN WHITE
Co-Directors
RENATE SCHROEDER & MARC GRUBER
accession negotiations to the EU of Central Olav is an active representative of author and
European and Baltic States as well as in the publisher rightholders in related.
copyright aspects of the technical assistance
programs PHARE and TACIS. Before joining the
Commission, she worked as a legal advisor in Axel Beelen is a lawyer at the Belgian collecting
the Ministry of Culture in France. She also society for journalists (SAJ - La Société de Droit
worked in the International Affairs Department of d'auteur des Journalists). Before joining the SAJ,
the French broadcasting company, TF1. he worked as a consultant for a publisher and a
tax specialist. He holds a Law degree and two
master degrees in taxation law and intellectual
Antonis Plessas is a freelancer, musician and property rights law.
advisor for the Hellenic Society for the Protection
of Intellectual Property (AEPI) in Greece. Having
achieved excellent results at his musical course Mathias Willdal graduated from Stockholm
at Berklee College of Music in Boston, United University (LL.M.) in 1994. After graduation he
States, he worked as a freelancer in the started his career as the legal adviser for the
production of musical projects. He is an expert in Swedish performers’ rights organisation SAMI.
the application of new technologies in music He became the legal adviser for the Swedish
production and education. He actively involves in Reproduction Rights Organisation, Bonus
project related to the new media and the Presskopia, since 1999. Bonus Presskopia is a
protection of intellectual property works in the member of the International Federation of
new digital environment. Reproduction Rights Organisations (IFRRO).
Mathias Willdal has served on several IFRRO’s
committees and working groups, such as New
Mike Holderness is a freelance writer and Technologies Committee, Legal Issues
editor, specialised in science and technology. He Committee and the European Group.
is active in the National Union of Journalists (UK
and Ireland), editing the newsletter for freelance
journalists and the associated website Heikki Jokinen has been a freelance journalist
www.londonfreelance.org and serving on several and art critic since 1986. He is the Vice-Chair of
other committees including its Copyright
the Finnish Union Council and a member of the
Committee. He is the Chair of the Creators’
Finish copyright society Kopiosto which is a
Rights Alliance in the UK, as well as the Authors’
member organisation of the International
Rights Expert Group of the European Federation
Federation of Reproduction Rights
of Journalists. Organisations. He was the former chair of the
Freelance section of the Finnish Union of
Journalists and the Freelance Expert Group of
Olav Stokkmo has been Chief Executive Officer
the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ).
of the International Federation of Reproduction
He is now a member of the EFJ Authors’ Rights
Rights Organisations (IFRRO) since December
Expert Group.
2004, a position he also held from 1998-2000.
Prior to joining IFRRO, Olav worked for 8 years
as the Deputy Executive Director of Kopinor, the Nick McGowan-Lowe is a freelance corporate
Norwegian reproduction rights organisation, and
and editorial photographer based in Scotland.
for 4 years as the Director of Operations at the
He is a member of the National Union of
Norwegian publishing house, Det Norske Journalists (NUJ) in the UK, and serves on the
Samlaget. Currently involved in the European NUJ's Freelance Industrial Council,
Commission’s i2010 Digital Libraries Initiative,
Photographers Committee, Scottish Executive
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3. President
ARNE KÖNIG
General Secretary
AIDAN WHITE
Co-Directors
RENATE SCHROEDER & MARC GRUBER
and Copyright Committee. He is also a director copyright term extension, enforcement of
of discussion and campaigning group Editorial copyright. He is an expert on data protection and
Photographers UK (EPUK). Since 2008 he has privacy issues.
been representing the NUJ on the Board of the
British Photographic Council, where he initiated,
organised and produced the 2010 British Yuk Lan Wong is the communications and
Photographic Council Industry Survey. project officer of the European Federation of
Journalists. She joined the Federation since
August 2009 as a trainee after she obtained her
Toralf Sandåker Toralf Sandåker is a freelance Joint Honours degree in Social Policy and
journalist, photographer and graphic designer Journalism, Films and Media Studies at Cardiff
working mainly in the field of media and University in the UK. During her studies, she
photographic technology. He is also a board also obtained work experience at the United
member of the freelance section of the Nations Association in Wales, where she was
Norwegian Union of Journalists. His works are the co-ordinator of the Young Professional
published in the Norwegian trade magazine Network.
Fotografi. He is currently writing a book on
photography.
Martine Simonis is the General Secretary of the
Belgian Union of Journalists (AGJPB) and the
Ascay Judit is the Vice-President of the
Association of Professional Journalists (AJP) in
Association of Hungarian Journalists (MÚOSZ)
Belgium. Trained as a lawyer, she established
where she is in charge of international affairs.
the Belgian Copyright Society for Journalists in
She is also a reserve member of the Steering 1995. In the past years, she had successfully
Committee of the European Federation of
negotiated numerous collective agreements to
Journalists. Having studied economics and
compensate the violation of journalists’ authors’
linguistics, Judit began her career as a journalist
rights.
in the print media since 1977. Later in her
career, she worked as a freelancer and editor
before she joined MÚOSZ. Lone Amtrup is the senior legal adviser of the
Danish Union of Journalists where she is in
charge of the copyright and related rights issues.
Kostas Rossoglou is the legal officer of the
She is a member of the board of Copydan Cable
European Consumers’ Organisation (BEUC)
TV as well as the alternate member of the board
based in Brussels. He is a qualified lawyer in of Copydan Writing. She is also a member of
Greece. He has been working at BEUC’s Legal the Executive Committee of Conciliation of
Department since January 2009 and is the Team
Copyright and the Secretary of the Copyright
Leader of BEUC’s Digital Team. He specialises
Foundation of the Danish Union of Journalists.
in intellectual property rights, the digital single
market and recent European policies on
copyright exceptions and limitations, private
copying levies, licensing of content online,
This programme is financially sponsored by the European Commission
and hosted by the Journalists’ Union of Macedonia and Thrace Daily
Newspapers.
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