Great minds think alike! We are proud to present several initiatives by the European ministries of culture that facilitate national cultural content for people to use from the comfort of their own homes:

#laculturaentucasa, the Spanish initiative by @culturagob

#iorestoacasa, the Italian initiative by @mibact

On 12 March 2020, the recently created Hungarian portal “Hungaroteka” joined the agorateka initiative with a link to its platform, on which citizens can search around 15 legal offers for TV and films, music, and e-books.

Üdvözöljük!

The 2019 Intellectual Property and Youth Scoreboard launched by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) shows that 51 % of 15 to 24 year olds in Europe say they have not used, played, downloaded or streamed content from illegal sources in the last 12 months.

The last such study conducted by the EUIPO, in 2016, showed that only 40% of young people avoided using illegal sources of digital content.

The Festival is an online event showing 120 hours of continuous content from Spanish Digital Video On Demand (VOD) platforms.  The aim is to publicise the wide and varied offer of entertainment and cultural content available on Spanish Video On- Demand platforms. .

During the festival, that will take place between the 6th and 10th of November, users can access a range of free content and also access paid services at a special discounted rate.

On 9 August 2019 the recently created Greek portal The Legal Bay joined the agorateka initiative with a link to its platform, on which citizens can search around 65 legal offers for film and tv, music, games, e-books, sport events and images.

καλώς ήρθατε!

Last June 5, the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Estonia kindly hosted the agorateka roadshow. The agorateka delegation presented the European online content portal project to an audience of national experts from both the public and private sectors.

After Croatia, Cyprus, Hungary and Slovenia, this is the 5th country visited by the agorateka roadshow. The aim of the roadshow is to meet stakeholders face-to-face in countries that have not yet joined agorateka, in order to guide them in setting up their own national portals where their citizens can easily find legal content.

The Observatory’s agorateka team is pleased to announce that the agorateka awareness campaign is going to be launched today in the 18 European countries that already have one or more online content portals connected to agorateka.

Recent statistics show that our network (including agorateka itself) receives on average half a million of unique visitors per month.

The five portals with the highest number of visitors are Film.nl (The Netherlands), Filmtoro (Czech Republic), Pakartot (Lithuania), Hadopi (France) and Legalna Kultura (Poland).

On 9 October 2018, a new campaign linked to the national portal Share With Care was launched in Denmark.

Share With Care is a joint campaign supported by RettighedsAlliancen, the Danish Ministry of Culture, the Telecom Industry Association and the Confederation of Danish Industry.

The campaign was first launched back in 2012, and these fresh efforts aim to build on the successful groundwork already set by the initial campaign.

FAMA/VAP, private sector co-sponsors of the national portal for Austria, presented Agorateka and the work of the EUIPO Observatory to the general assembly of the European Coordination of Independent Producers CEPI, held mid-November in Dublin. CEPI is committed to fostering a strong, independent film and television production sector.