Over the last week, at GMB Congress, three reasons to rejoin the EU or at least the single market have, in my opinion, been exposed. The EU’s GDPR is an important law establishing the right to privacy as we are| davelevy.info
Joint statement by a coalition of authors, performers and other rightsholders active across the EU’s cultural and creative sectors regarding the third draft of the EU AI Act’s GPAI Code of Practice. The third draft of the GPAI Code of Practice undermines the objectives of the AI Act, contravenes EU law and ignores the intention...| AGAINST WRITOIDS
Guardian: “EU Accused Of Leaving ‘Devastating’ Copyright Loophole In AI Act” London / Brussels, 19 February, 2025. The Guardian (UK) article is dedicated to the effects of the EU AI Act and the CDSM Directive of 2019/790. In particular, it warns of the active hindrance by policymakers – including in the drafting of the Code...| AGAINST WRITOIDS
General-Purpose AI Code of Practice: Joint letter from authors and performers sent to Executive Vice-President Virkkunen and Commissioner Micallef Dear Executive Vice-President Virkkunen, Dear Commissioner Micallef, The AI Office is currently tasked with the critical responsibility of successfully finalising the ‘General-Purpose AI Code of Practice’ by May 2025. As representative organisations of authors and...| AGAINST WRITOIDS
Facing today’s reality and paving the way for the next EU policy agenda If properly enforced, the AI Act will be a step in the right direction but will not be sufficient for a meaningful AI strategy for the cultural and creative industries . Together with 12 other authors’, performers’ and other creative workers’ organisations EWC...| AGAINST WRITOIDS
EWC supports the Statement on AI training and joins hundreds and thousands authors and artists: The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted. founder of the non-profit Fairly Trained (https://www.fairlytrained.org) that works to get...| AGAINST WRITOIDS
EWC responded to the Multi-stakeholder Consultation FUTURE-PROOF AI ACT: TRUSTWORTHY GENERALPURPOSE AI with the proviso that the premise of this consultation needs formal clarification| AGAINST WRITOIDS