 Well, my name is Agnette Holland and I'm from Norway. I'm working in Norway. I am the president of FIA, the International Federation of Actors. So I'm both working as an actress and representing all the actors of the world as a FIA president. And I'm so honored to be in Beijing and I'm so excited about what is going on here and we actually change the history. I'm Jean Rogers. I started acting after going to drama school and I've been acting on and off for about 40 years now, a long time. I'm Benoit Machuel. I'm a violinist and I also represent the International Federation of Actors. My name is Fern Downey. I'm a Canadian actor and I am thrilled to be here for the Beijing Treaty. Oh my God, we finally did it. My name is Esperanza Silva. I'm an actress. I'm a Chilean. And I represent all the Chilean artists and also Latin America through Latin Artists. Hi, my name is Simon Burke. I'm an actor from Australia and I'm so honored to be in the room on this incredibly historic day when the Treaty for Audiovisual Performances has been adopted. Finally, after 51 years, audiovisual performers are not second-class citizens. You know, along with audio performers and along with producers, along with authors, we are now recognized as having economic and moral rights over the content that we perform in. And it's crazy that it hasn't happened before but it's just so, so important that it's happened now. So the Beijing Treaty is just, it's a marvellous, marvellous thing that is happening. And we have been working for this for like more than 20 years. Lots of people all over the world to make it possible for actors to keep on acting and for the audience to actually have the privilege of seeing all kinds of films, all kinds of movies, all kinds of audiovisual stuff. This is really a very exciting moment, I think, for actors around the world. I'm also here as a vice president of my union, Equity, British Equity. And so therefore I feel very responsible for all our members who work in the profession and who will be able to take advantage of a right now, a right not only to be paid but to be recognized. I mean, there's a relief, there's a release of joy, I think, after all this hard work. 20 years is a long, long time. So today there's sort of, it's a punctuation. It's a period. We did it. We got here. We're building respect for audiovisual performers all around the world. For performers, whether they're actors, singers, dancers, it's very, very, very important. We live in a world now where broadcasting, the platforms are getting bigger and bigger, more and more of them. Our work goes out. We don't know where it's going. We don't know who's seeing it. And the opportunities for that to be played and you get no recognition are vast. But this treaty will actually put on record how important our role is. We interpret what people write. And writers have had these interviews. And I think it's important that we have the opportunity to see what our role is. We interpret what people write. And writers have had these intellectual property rights. But the audiovisual performers haven't. But now, well, now the future is starting to open up for us, I believe. I was speaking, as you probably know, on behalf of the International Federation of Actors, which is quite a daunting thing. I have to say for an actor to get dressed up in a suit for a start. Usually you only get dressed up in a suit if you're playing a copyright lawyer. But to actually come all the way to Beijing and be one of very, very few performers in the room and actually to get to tell my story is a really important thing. Because, of course, they're all kind of articles and perambulations and I can't even think of preambulations, sorry. And agreed statements and stuff like that. Which different countries and different entities will argue over and try to get absolutely right. But the reason we're here is the absolute fundamental right to have some economic rights and moral rights over our work. I'm very happy. I think I represent the sense of all the Spanish-American artists that this treaty on protection of audiovisual artists has finally been signed. I think that for many years we have been fighting to achieve it and that it carries the name of Beijing, of this city, full of culture, full of history. It's a great honour for us. I just think that finally in the 21st century we have come to a position where not just audio performers who have had these rights for many, many years, but audiovisual performers, when you think about what content is, the content that you and I look at every day, without performers, audiovisual performers, there would be no content. There might be a couple of World of Beasts on the National Geographic Channel that we might watch, but I mean basically everything that we watch, everything, all the stories that we love and the way that we share our cultures is all about performers. So it's an absolute nonsense that performers have never had, you know, enshrined in this treaty an ability to be able to bargain for their rights beyond, you know, beyond the first showing. People are able to keep on acting and making good stories in the audiovisual field, which actually means basically films, I mean pictures that are moving. That means that the content will be conveyed to the audience and they will have much more audience to keep on enjoying and be provoked by or cry by or laugh bad. I mean we have the whole register of content here. The importance is that actors all over the world will be actually able to keep on working and be protected when they work. It's interesting because I'm a stage performer as well as a film and television actor and it's funny, you know, if I go into a show every night I've just been doing Mary Poppins for Disney in Australia all around Australia, you know, I go and I do the performance, I get paid for that, that's it, goodbye. But if that performance is recorded, then it's there forever and the fact that, you know, I don't have, that a performer may not have the right to enjoy the use of that that other people have is just crazy really. And I think the interesting thing that Javier Badem said in our video is that it's not just about the big stars, it's not just about the big marquee names that we all know and love, but it's about hundreds and thousands of performers from every different country regardless, nationality or language or media or celebrity. It's about protecting all of us because performing is an incredibly difficult life that you choose. You don't, you have to really want to do it to make it your career because it's such a hard career and so any help that we can have at all to feel professional, to have the dignity, to continue our professions is welcome. This is so wonderful that we've, at long last after what, 18, 20 years of debating, we're here at a moment where things I think can turn around the corner for performers because of the way in which our work is. There's a feeling that anyone can do it, whereas in point of fact we are proud to be artists, we train, we have experience, we feel we have a value and I think the most wonderful and significant part of today is that that value is now being recognized. Well the thing about this treaty is that it stamps once and for all into international kind of acceptance that performers have the rights to economic and moral rights for their performances. We all start the really hard work of going home to our governments and saying we've done this in the world, now you at home in my government, wake up, implement this, ratify this, make it international legislation, make it real. The message for all governments in this new stage where the consensus has already been achieved here in Beijing is that it's not too late, that we don't have to wait years for this to be ratified by the states. This treaty will not only benefit artists, but also the culture of the world in general. This week in Beijing because of, I mean, the presidents that we've had and the way that the process has been, it's been this incredible positivity in the air and like people that I've seen in Geneva walking around with sort of worried faces or long faces, all because of this kind of, there's been a momentum here and the lawyers and the copyright guys and the representatives from various countries around the world, you've just felt ever since we've been here there's been this harm that something is going to happen. And I have to say that when I made my speech on behalf of International Federation of Actors, it was towards the end that I kind of started hitting me that how historic this is, that this is something that is so right and so just and it's finally coming true.