New Director For CISAC 13/06/2011 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)The International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC), which claims representation of 3 million creators and publishers, has named a new director general. He comes from a career in broadcasting. Olivier Hinnewinkel was appointed director general following CISAC’s World Copyright Summit held on 7-8 June. Hinnewinkel’s appointment bridges the rights holder and broadcasting worlds, as he is a veteran executive at the Geneva-based European Broadcasting Union’s Eurovision, most recently serving as CEO and managing director of Eurovision Asia-Pacific. Eurovision provides news and entertainment. CISAC has 229 members, which are authors’ societies from 121 countries, representing about 3 million creators and publishers of artistic works in all genres including music, drama, literature, audiovisual and the visual arts, according to its website. Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) Related William New may be reached at wnew@ip-watch.ch."New Director For CISAC" by Intellectual Property Watch is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.