Suomen freet tukevat Tanskan Allerin freelancereiden kamppailua 25.3.2007

SFJ:n vuosikokouksen osanottajat vetoavat kaikkiin suomalaisiin freelancereihin, että he pysyisivät solidaarisina tanskalaisille kollegoilleen.

Tanskalaisten freelancereiden kiista Tanskan Allerin Pressin kanssa oli esillä perjantaina Suomen freelance-journalistit ry:n (SFJ) vuosikokouksessa. Osapuolet ovat erimielisiä tekijänoikeuksien luovutuksen laajuudesta ja eri vaihtoehtojen vaatimista palkkioista.

Solidaarisuutta tarvitaan varsinkin siinä tapauksessa, että Tanskan freelancerit alkavat boikotoida Tanskan Aller Pressin julkaisuja. Tanskan Journalistiliitto on varoittanut kustantamoa free-työtä koskevasta boikotista. Liiton suunnitelman mukaan se alkaa 1. huhtikuuta. Aller Pressin mielestä boikotti rikkoisi kilpailunvapauslainsäädäntöä vastaan.

Solidaarisuus tanskalaisille ammattiveljille ja -siskoille vaatii suomalaisia freelancereita pidättymään toimeksiannoista, joiden seurauksena suomalaisten juttuja ja kuvia päätyisi mahdollisen boikotin aikana Aller Pressin julkaisuihin.

Aller Pressin ja tanskalaisten journalistien suhdetta kärjistää myös työsuhteisten työehtosopimusneuvottelujen katkeaminen tiistaina. Osapuolten on määrä jatkaa tes-neuvotteluja välittäjän johdolla.

Tanskan journalistiliiton verkkosivusto www.journalistforbundet.dk raportoi tanskaksi Aller Pressin tilanteen kehittymisestä.

VETOOMUS

Declaration of solidarity from the general assembly of the Suomen freelance-journalistit ry – Frilans Journalister i Finland ry 23th March 2007.

Suomen freelance-journalistit ry - Frilans Journalister i Finland encourages Aller Press A/S to call back the contracts which were sent as a non-negotiated ultimatum to all the freelances who hitherto have created
text and illustrations and to take up negotiations with the Danish Union of
Journalists in stead with the purpose of reaching a fair agreement.

The Aller magazines have been published for many years in excellent co-operation with both staff and freelance content providers. Right now this constructive atmosphere is threatened by the demands of Aller Press to be able to syndicate their material inside the Carl Aller Establishment for free and outside the company for an unacceptable low royalty.

It is in both the interest of the Aller magazines and the freelances to fight for strong protection of authors' and related rights and to secure an ethically correct handling of the independent journalistic content. The conflict is also about journalistic credibility.

Sources must be able to speak out to one magazine one day without having to
see him or herself exposed in another magazine in a completely different
context. Further use of editorial material, in other words, requires clear
guidelines for the communication between sources, freelances and the publishers. Such clear lines are not part of the dictated contracts in which all rights of use are left for the company to handle.

We are not against further use if guidelines can secure proper concerns for sources and the integrity of both the journalists and the magazine in question. If these conditions are met the freelances and the media company have a common economic interest in putting the material to further use.

However this requires reciprocity in the contracts and not one sided ultimatums as in the contracts Aller has sent to their approximately 600 freelances. In these contracts virtually all royalty payment for further use has been eliminated.

On this background the Suomen freelance-journalistit ry - Frilans Journalister i Finland strongly encourages the leadership of Aller Press to enter into negotiations with the Danish Union of Journalists with the
purpose of reaching an agreement which will take the interests of both parties into consideration and thereby avoiding the conflict and enabling the parties to continue their constructive co-operation.