The request was submitted to the Competition and Consumer Protection Office on August 9. The office has one month to issue a decision, with the possibility of extending this deadline.
Digital Publishers Employers Association aims to develop activities “in the field of collective management of rights related to press publications, protection of rights related to press publications and support and representation of the interests of entities holding rights related to press publications” – it was announced on the website of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection.
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– The members of the Association have submitted a notification of the intended merger with a request for consent from the Competition and Consumer Protection Office to the Competition and Consumer Protection Office. As early as the first announcement on the establishment of the Association, we said that the Association intends to represent its members in negotiations with big tech after fulfilling the relevant requirements under the relevant regulations. This village is part of fulfilling these requirements. We want to act as transparently as possible, believing that there are no doubts about the legal status of the organization in this context – comments Maciej Kossowski, President of the Association of Employers of Digital Publishers at Wirtualnemedia.pl.
The Digital Publishers Employers Association brings together the media
The Digital Publishers Employers Association (ZPWC) as an industry organization was established in September 2023 and includes representatives from WP Group, Ringier Axel Springer Polska and Agora, ZPR Media Group and TVN Warner Bros. Discovery and Interia.
The association’s objective is to represent the interests of its members in the creation of regulatory frameworks that are important from a media perspective. The organisation currently aims to focus on activities in the field of collective management of related rights in the context of the implementation of the EU DSMM directive. It gives media publishers the right to royalties for the use of journalistic content by major digital companies.
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The chairman of the Association of Employers of Digital Publishers is Maciej Kossowski, the supervisory board includes Jacek Świderski (Grupa WP), Aleksander Kutela (Ringier Axel Springer Polska), Bartosz Hojka (Agora), Katarzyna Białek (Grupa ZPR Media) and Dorota Żurkowska (TVN Warner Bros. Discovery).
ZPWC was registered as a trade union in February this year. As a company, it will already have shareholders – six leading publishers – who, due to the scale of their operations, will need to obtain the consent of the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection to form a joint entity.
