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.

On September 12, the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) of the Republic of Croatia 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.

The aim of the roadshow was 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.

On 1 August 2018 the Dutch portal thecontentmap.nl joined the agorateka initiative with a link to its platform, on which citizens can search around 170 legal offers for film and tv, music, games, e-books and images.

Created in 2014, thecontentmap.nl guides you to legal and safe digital content services.

Welkom!

On 27 July 2018, Slovakia joined the agorateka initiative with a new national portal, created with the assistance of the EUIPO portal toolkit.

The Slovak Republic is the 17th European country to join agorateka, with ‘agorateka Slovakia’ the 20th portal linked to the aggregator.

Users of ‘agorateka Slovakia’ will have access to 17 legal offer sites offering films, music, TV archives, sporting events, Xbox games, e-books, internet TV and paid streaming of audiovisual works.

Vitajte na palube Slovenska!

The Netherlands linked their first portal, ‘Film.nl’, to agorateka on 4 June 2018, becoming the 16th country to join the agorateka network. There are now 19 portals linked to agorateka, referencing more than 1 400 legal offer sites.

‘Film.nl’ is a popular website that has found its way into many Dutch living rooms. It is a unique collaboration project between film producers, distributors, broadcasters, online providers and other stakeholders. Visit the website or download the app to find films and TV series safely and quickly.

Welkom aan boord, Nederland!

By the end of 2018, a communication campaign will help increase the visibility of national portals.

We are envisaging an EU-wide communication campaign by the end of the year to raise the profile of the national portals.

The campaign will promote national portals as the best places to find legal offer content online.

The campaign will be adapted to each member state and feature the details of each national portal.