The International Federation of Journalists welcomes the gradual incorporation by EU countries of the new publishers' relative right directive, which provides a fair share for journalists.

Also welcomes corresponding legislative interventions at global level.

The positive developments in Greece, with the legislative definition of a specific percentage -25% and 15%- for journalists is an example in the right direction for other countries as well.

The negotiations and agreements with major digital platforms that will follow, will find journalists around the world ready to claim and receive a fair share of the huge profits generated for the digital giants by the exponential reproduction of their work online.

This right must be expanded and strengthened with appropriate interventions in intellectual property law in the single
digital market which has brought about dramatic changes in the press, worldwide.

The IFJ welcomes the initiative of JUADN and the Journalist Greek Associations of journalists to establish a purely journalistic Collecting Society of copyrights and supports a united, strong front of journalists across Europe to assert their rights against the giant digital monopoles.