<<‘The Artist’ director Michel Hazanavicius leads call against the creation of a Digital Single Market

Three Academy Award winners ­– Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist), Volker Schlöndorff (The Tin Drum) and Danis Tanovic (No Man’s Land) ­– are among 20 film-makers joining the protest against the European Commission’s plans to reform copyright law.

In their statement, also signed by Chantal Akerman, Luc Dardenne, Costa-Gavras, Jaco van Dormael and Julie Bertuccelli, they declared: “We are Europeans who still hear the echo of [European Commission] President Juncker saying that he would never accept creators being ‘treated like plastic manufacturers’, but now his College compare our work with selling a car or a tie.”>>

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