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Hvernig getur þitt fyrirtæki aukið tekjur sínar gegnum betri nýtingu höfundarréttar?

Í tengslum við norræna kvikmyndaviku í Bíó Paradís, dagana 29. október til 4. nóvember, býður AGICOA (alþjóðleg innheimtusamtök samtaka höfunda og grannrétthafa) í samvinnu við Græna ljósið, til ráðstefnu um höfundarréttargreiðslur kl. 14:00, miðvikudaginn 3. nóvember í Bíó Paradís.
 
Ráðstefnan er ókeypis en mikilvægt er að skrá sig sem fyrst á netfangiðasgrimur@bioparadis.is, látið nafn og símanúmer fylgja.
Skráningarfrestur rennur út föstudaginn 29. október kl. 17:00.
 
Á ráðstefnunni mun Jonathan Olsberg, stjórnarformaður Olsberg|SPI, London sem sérhæfir sig í ráðgjöf og stefnumótun fyrir alþjóðlegan kvikmynda- og sjónvarpsiðnað, ræða um hvernig framleiðendur og aðrir rétthafar geti sem best byggt upp fyrirtæki sín til lengri tíma. Olsberg mun leggja sérstaka áherslu á að ræða hvernig hægt er að nýta sem flesta tekjumöguleika af notkun myndefnis í sjónvarpi.
 
Fyrirlestur Olsberg skiptist í fjóra meginkafla:
 
·         Lyklar að velgengni í uppbyggingu kvikmyndafyrirtækja.
·         Heimur endurflutningsréttarins útskýrður.
·         Hvernig innheimtusamtök geta aukið tekjuflæði fyrirtækisins.
·         Spurningar og svör (Tómas Þorvaldsson, lögmaður SÍK, tekur einnig þátt í umræðum)
 
Dagskrá ráðstefnunnar er sem hér segir:
 
14:00-15:00: Jonathan Olsberg: Sustainable Business Strategies for the Digital Age
15:20-16:00: Drykkir og spjall.
16:00-17:45: Sérstök sýning á Submarino eftir Tomas Vinterberg, handhafa kvikmyndaverðlauna Norðurlandaráðs 2010.
 
 
Nánar um Jonathan Olsberg:
 
Jonathan Olsberg is chairman of Olsberg|SPI, London, the international screen
sector strategy adviser.
 
Olsberg has worked in the screen industries for 28 years. He started out in New
York as an international sales agent, handling titles such as My Beautiful
Launderette, before distributing specialised films in the U.S. from directors like
Godard, Verhoeven, Greenaway and Paul Cox. In 1989 Jonathan returned to
London as Managing Director of international distributor and sales agent Glinwood
Films (The Last Emperor).
 
Founded in 1992, SPI supplies specialist advice on policy and business issues in
film, television and digital media. It serves public and private sector clients from
the European Commission to the UK Film Council; from Italy’s Cinecitta Holdings
to Screen Australia and from broadcasters like the BBC to independent screen
businesses from Manchester to Melbourne.
 
SPI’s recent assignments include: advising PACT on a new business model for UK
film producers; recommending new film policy initiatives to the Finnish
government for growing its incoming production business; advising Flame
Television on its acquisition by Avalon; carrying out a review, for the UK Film
Council, of its talent development activities; advising Screen Australia on setting
up a new corporate finance funding programme and evaluating subsequent
funding applications; mapping the UK’s facilities sector for the UK Screen
Association; for the InterAmerican Development Bank, advising on opportunities
for expanding the market for films from Chile, and providing strategic business
advice to the collective management society AGICOA.
 
Olsberg was a producer with the UK company Dakota Films, whose last
production was Fade to Black, written and directed by Oliver Parker and starring
Danny Huston. Among other production credits are Fateless (2006) by Hungarian
director Lajos Koltai; Kenny Glenaan’s Yasmin (2005); John Duigan’s Head in the
Clouds (2004), starring Charlize Theron and Penelope Cruz; Sandra Goldbacher’s
Me Without You (2002) starring Anna Friel and Michelle Williams, and (in 1999)
Othello, directed by Oliver Parker and starring Kenneth Branagh, Laurence
Fishburne and Irene Jacob.
 
Olsberg’s first career was in international finance, including 9 years in merchant
banking in London and New York. This followed a MBA from Columbia University
in New York. He is a member of the European Film Academy, BAFTA and the
British Screen Advisory Council.
 
Olsberg can be contacted on jonathan@o-spi.com.