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Üllar Saaremäe

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20 records where Üllar Saaremäe is listed as a sponsor, author, or other actor. Search with topics and years

Law· SE635avaldatud riigiteatajas

Act amending the Act on Holidays and Public Holidays and the Act on the Estonian Flag

Estonia · Riigikogu · 6 June 2022

The bill amends the PTS by supplementing the list of national holidays with the Day of Estonian Literature. The list of flag days presented in ELS will also be supplemented with the specified date. In addition to the above, the list of flag days will be supplemented by the days of the general song and dance party and the youth song and dance party at the proposal of the Estonian Song and Dance Foundation.

Law· SE419avaldatud riigiteatajas

Act to amend the Performance Establishment Act and the National Opera Act

Estonia · Riigikogu · 13 September 2021

The amendments make the legislation related to performance activities clearer and more flexible. The Act on Performance Establishments in its current form has caused uncertainty in the financing of theaters. The bill changes the arrangement of state funding of performance institutions so that it is clearer, more flexible and causes less litigation. Due to the current practice, the work processes of performance institutions are being modernized. The bill reduces the obligations of performance institutions and administrative burden. At the same time, all organizers of public performances and concerts have an additional obligation to disclose information related to the accessibility of the performance or concert and the place where it takes place, which concerns the participation of people with special needs in culture. The changes have been made with the aim of better supporting the diversity of the field and the availability of performing arts across Estonia. The change in the law affects all performance institutions in Estonia, of which there are about 50. These in the context of this draft, private concert organizers are not included. According to Statistics Estonia, in 2020, 398,500 Estonian residents aged at least 15 visited the theater at least once, and 424,500 people attended the concert. According to the most recently published statistics, in 2019 an adult theater visitor had to pay an average of 14.85 euros for a ticket. In the same year, the average net monthly salary in Estonia was around 1162 euros. Considered affordable ticket price, which is in the order of one percent of the average monthly salary. In 2019, the average theater ticket price was 1.28 percent of the average monthly salary. To ensure that the balance between the ticket price and the residents' incomes does not decrease, the state budget will continue to support performance institutions in the future, and this will be the case for municipal and private performance institutions in addition to performance institutions operating as foundations established by the state.

Law· SE368avaldatud riigiteatajas

Copyright Law Amendment Act (Transposition of Copyright Directives)

Estonia · Riigikogu · 5 April 2021

The draft adopts two copyright directives of the European Union that entered into force in the summer of 2019, which were part of the so-called copyright reform package published by the European Commission in September 2016 (transition deadline June 7, 2021). The changes in the law ensure better access to copyrighted content for consumers, while also protecting the rights of authors and performers. The changes will improve the negotiating position of authors and performers when concluding copyright contracts, obliging the other party to the contract to provide them with information about the use of rights at least once a year. It is also possible to conclude extended collective license agreements for the use of works, if obtaining permission from each individual rights holder would be excessively burdensome for the user, for example, this concerns television or radio service offers. Among other things, obligations are also imposed on online platforms (e.g. YouTube, Facebook), whose main purpose is to enable users of the service to upload content and access works, performances and other content that may be protected by copyright or copyright related rights (video clips from concerts, excerpts from films and TV series, music recordings, etc.). It also adds to the cases of free use, when users are allowed to use a protected work or copyrighted rights object (e.g. performance or phonogram) without the consent of the rights holder and without payment of a fee. For example, the use of works without the consent of the author and without payment of royalties is allowed for text and data mining purposes, both for commercial and non-commercial purposes. By applicable law, this is only permitted for non-commercial purposes. In addition, better opportunities from trade turnover are created for institutions dealing with cultural heritage (libraries, museums, archives) for the use of outdoor works in the presentation of cultural heritage.