The European Union must set an example on how human culture should be protected and valued and uphold the fundamental role that books play in protecting democracy, fostering empathy and freedom of speech, and helping citizens to develop critical thinking as well as enjoy a quality source of entertainment and education.| AGAINST WRITOIDS
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
Spain’s cultural sector says “No, gracias” to Royal Decree – Survey shows: half of authors do not want to license works for AI Spain was pushing another threat for writers in the training of general-purpose AI models. By proposing an extended collective licensing (ECL) regime to train a large language model in all Spanish languages, Spain’s...| AGAINST WRITOIDS
This is an issue that transcends borders, as demonstrated in particular by the “Hiroshima” AI process under the auspices of the G7, by the G20 conclusions and by international treaties. The summit therefore has a special responsibility as there will be no trusted AI without respect for intellectual property rights. There will be no humanist AI without the authorisation of rightsholders. There will be no sovereign AI without a fair business model. The States who are party to the Summit m...| 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