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NEW REPORT REVEALS ARTISTS ARE LET DOWN BY LEGISLATORS

NEW REPORT REVEALS ARTISTS ARE LET DOWN BY LEGISLATORS

The International Artist Organisation (IAO) releases part two of Streams and Dreams, commissioned to Swedish music industry researcher Daniel Johansson. With the support of AEPO-ARTIS and its members, a respondent body of 9,542 artists across Europe was achieved,...

IAO Voicing the Artist’s Needs at Midem

IAO Voicing the Artist’s Needs at Midem

At the annual Music Industry Conference in Cannes last week Tore Engström Østby represented IAO in a panel discussing The Creator & The Industry; Sharing The Created Value.  After an introduction by MEP Ibán García Del Blanco, who commissioned report «Cultural...

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DSA: A MISSED OPPORTUNITY AND A STEP BACKWARDS

DSA: A MISSED OPPORTUNITY AND A STEP BACKWARDS

We are writing on behalf of a broad coalition of organizations, representing the creative sector in Europe. We represent musical, audio-visual, literary, visual authors; performers; book, musical, scientific, technical and medical publishers; recorded music, film and...

GECAT Pass

Getting ALL European artists back on the road Proposal for a cultural area permit scheme across multiple geographical groupings, July 2021 The European Union and its nearest neighbours across multiple geographical groupings share many aspects of aligned cultural and...

IAO presents “the Featured Artist Declaration”- 4/06/19

IAO AND THE FEATURED ARTIST DECLARATION IAO, International Artist Organisation, is the umbrella association for national organisations representing the rights and interests of Featured Artists in the Music Industry. IAO was established to represent featured artists...

IAO – Corona Statement

IAO – Corona Statement

Paris March 27th, 2020 In a time when our whole society is affected by the current pandemic, we, the International Artists Organisation (IAO), wish to issue an important statement regarding the situation for music artists.  Emergency guidelines have resulted in a...