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Joint Statement: The Impact of AI on the European creative communities

Statement on AI training by authors and artists

EWC contribution to the AI Office consultation: Future-Proof AI Act

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13 Organisations signing on AI Act

Joint Statement: The Impact of AI on the European creative communities

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…

Statement on AI training by authors and artists

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…

EWC contribution to the AI Office consultation: Future-Proof AI Act

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. The exception(s) for text and data…
Oscar Wilde in the midst

OPEN LETTER TO EUROPE

©Jacek Dehnel By Jacek Dehnel, polish poet, writer, translator, and painter       In 2017 Days of Poetry and Wine festival has launched a programme called Open Letter to…
13 Organisations signing on AI Act

JOINT STATEMENT to Ursula von der Leyen and the new elected European Parliament

13 AUTHORS’, PERFORMERS’ AND OTHER CREATIVE WORKERS’ ORGANISATIONS JOINT STATEMENT ON THE IMPACT OF AI ON THE European creative community Joint letter to Members of the European Parliament on the…
13 Organisations signing on AI Act

AUTHORS’, PERFORMERS’ AND OTHER CREATIVE WORKERS’ ORGANISATIONS JOINT STATEMENT ON GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE EU AI ACT

The undersigned organisations represent the collective voice of hundreds of thousands of writers, performers, composers, songwriters, screen directors, screenwriters, visual artists, journalists, translators and other creative workers whose human artistry…

EWC’s Ten Principles to regulate Generative AI

EWC Handout: ten tasks and future scenarios to be addressed by political decisionmakers and stakeholders to regulate generative AI. The European Writers’ Council (EWC) is the world’s largest representation of…
13 Organisations signing on AI Act

For an innovation and creator friendly AI Act

Europe’s creative community urges EU policymakers to put transparency back at the heart of the EU AI Act. As the AI Act is entering into the final round of negotiations,…

CATASTROPHES, SUBMERGIBLES AND LIES ABOUT AI

By Dr Miguel Ángel Serrano, President of EWC and Human writer. @Gustavo Queipo de Llano The author reflects on some developments in the career of Sam Altman, CEO, former CEO…

Thoughts on merchandising protected authors’ works

Régis Ecosse is a french filmmaker The development of smart programs (the so-called “artificial intelligence”), whether generative or not, applied to the cultural world, originates massively from the United States.…

WIPO SCCR 44: EWC Statement on a WIPO Info Session on generative AI

As the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) held the 44th session of its Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) in November 2023 EWC’s Secretary General Nicole Pfister Fetz…

Al Act: Letter of concern on the stopped negotiations on 10th November

Al Act Proposal Trilogue: Letter of concern on the stopped negotiations over Foundation Models It was with great dismay that we learned of the termination of the negotiations during the…