The Federation of Copyright Interests, with the three affiliated umbrella organizations Platform Makers, Platform Creative Media Industry (PCMI) and the association of collective management organizations (VOI©E), has a budget of 5 million euros available from its own resources, largely intended for socio-cultural support to rights holders in the music sector, to makers of audiovisual works and to writers and image makers of writings. The Minister of Education, Culture and Science has so appreciated the responsibility that the sector has taken in this regard that she has doubled this amount from the additional 300 million euros that have become available for the cultural sector.

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