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6th December 2024

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

26th October 2024

Statement on AI training by authors and artists

1st October 2024

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

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31st October 2023

A DYSTOPIAN DREAM ON IA

On the occasion of the international conference Challenges of European Book and Reading Policy, organised by the Spanish Ministry of Culture and the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the…

20th October 2023

EIBF, FEP, EWC – Common Statement: For the sake of the book chain and democracy

On the occasion of the Frankfurt Book Fair, the biggest book fair in the world, the European Writers’ Council (EWC), the Federation of European Publishers (FEP) and the European and…

5th October 2023

THE CLAW IN THE GLASS BOX: CHILDREN, ART AND AI

By Oisín McGann, Irish writer and graphic artist. You are an artist suffering from a strange kind of amnesia. You…

28th September 2023

The success of Generative AI in the book sector is based on theft

Generative, analytical and assistive informatics, sub-areas of so-called artificial “intelligence”, threatens numerous jobs and fields of labour in the book sector and will replace some professions by machines in the…

26th September 2023

AI Act: 13 International and European Authors’ and Performers’ federations call for a human centric approach to generative AI

The EWC, together with 12 European and International authors’, performers’ and other creative workers’ organisations, urgently call for a human centric approach to generative AI, built upon informed consent, transparency,…

18th September 2023

Speech on AI for our Welcome reception in June at Berlin

17th September 2023

DICTIONARY ON ADVANCED INFORMATICS (AI)

Already, numerous criminal and damaging “AI business models” have developed in the book sector – with fake authors, fake books and also fake readers. It has been proved that the…

16th August 2023

Stolen Identities and Click Farms

By Eystein Hanssen, Vice President of the European Writers’ Council, Chair of the Norwegian Society of Authors. Amazon experiences a flood of pseudonym authors generated by Artificial Intelligence,…

31st July 2023

European Writers’ Council (EWC) on the AI Act Proposal: Plea for the ART principle

The following is the second statement of EWC on AI. It is intended to inform decision makers during the trilogue phase of the (EU) AI Act Proposal. With it, we…

22nd July 2023

WRITOIDS: A violation of Human Rights

By Dr Miguel Ángel Serrano, President of EWC and Human writer.
The author reflects on the systematic violation of intellectual property by big corporations and how that is harming writers in three levels: economic, reputational and psychologic.

11th July 2023

Please, do not call it intelligent

By Nina George

Nina George is a New-York-Times bestseller novelist, President of Honor of the European Writers’ Council and it’s Commissioner for Political Affairs. She is actively facing the challenges of AI by participating in many fora at a European level.

28th June 2023

AI: An ethical reflection

By Jens J Kramer, former Chair at The Syndikat, Germany. Jens is a crime novels writer.

The following is a speech given by Mr Kramer at the EWC Business Issues Forum (BIF) held in Berlin on 3rd of June 2023. The BIF was made possible with the collaboration of EWC and the co-sponsors VG Wort and KulturWerk.

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