"The video clip is a work of art". Word of the Minister of Culture Dario Franceschini, who this morning signed the decree that recognizes the benefits of tax credit to this specific audiovisual product. The decision, explains the minister, after the petition signed by many artists, from Fiorello to Giovanni Allevi, from Gianna Nannini to Gino Paoli.
Music videos, explains Franceschini, "have interpreted and interpreted the popular imagination at their best, making entire generations dream and are works of art. For this reason there was no reason to exclude them from tax breaks. This morning, therefore, I fixed an error ".
The provision identifies video clips as universally recognized artistic works, the result of ingenuity with creative contents similar to those of other products admitted to the tax benefits of the Franceschini law on cinema such as films, video art and video games.
"Hurray! W the video clips! W the music! #Taxcredit. Thanks @dariofrance!". It is Rosario Fiorello's tweet that welcomes the decision of the Minister of Culture Dario Franceschini to recognize the nature of a work of art with a decree to the video clip, which will allow these products to access the tax breaks provided for by the tax credit. In his tweet, Fiorello posts a video in which the many exponents of the music who had signed a petition with this request, underline the importance of the video clips: from Eugenio Bennato to Gino Paoli, from Ermal Meta to Chiara and many others. In the end, Franceschini also appears and admits in the video: "Okay, you convinced me: in 2017 the video clip was excluded from the tax credit, it was a mistake. Today we have remedied it".