ARTISTIC FREEDOM
EWC project #Freeallwords translated text by Nobel Price for Peace Laureate
European Day of Languages | #FreeAllWords project
Support for Writers from Ukraine and Belarus: The project #FreeAllWords
Women in Literature: The FIL Symposium
The EWC Annual General Assembly was succesfully held in Madrid.
#FreeAllWords
Specific support by authors for authors: #FreeAllWords
The #FreeAllWords text and translation fund is a joint support initiative for first and foremost Belarusian and Ukrainian writers. It will be coordinated under the umbrella of the European Writers’ Council (EWC) and with the participation of its 46 member organisations from 30 countries, as well as with the help of the Federation of European Literary Translation Associations CEATL.
Ukraine: European and International Writers and Translators against War and Violence
#StandwithUkraine – HOW TO SUPPORT
Ми засуджуємо злочини Путіна проти демократії та людства.
Украина: писатели Европы против войны и насилия
To the Members of the European Parliament DROI Subcommittee on Human Rights
Forced liquidation: The European Writers’ Council stands with its member, the Union of Belarusian Writers
#freewordsBelarus: European Writers stand with the Union of Belarusian Writers
Belarus: Radical crackdown against the Free Word
EWC demands support for writers, translators and cultural workers fleeing Belarus
The EWC condemns the attacks of the dictatorial Lukashenko regime on its member, the Union of Belarusian Writers, as well as on the writers’ organisation PEN Belarus in Minsk
Playing off the right to education and culture, and the authors’ right against each other harms a democracy
AUTHORS’ RIGHTS
@FreeAllWords publiserer oversatte tekster fra ukrainske og belarusiske forfattere. Prosjektet er i regi av @CouncilWriters, med bidrag fra bla. @FrittOrd, @Kopinor og @Forfatterforb. Sjekk ut ...hjemmesiden her: https://freeallwords.org
In 2022, our #CCFG (co-)hosted or officially supported 7 public events, including with these partners: @le_CNM @MinistereCC @regiongrandest @saabrussels @SportsGroup2024 @Liveurope @ABconcerts ...@Creators_ECSA @Film_directors @CouncilWriters @ScreenwritersEU @EVisual_Artists.
There are also the impacts these systems are having on small rights holders, whose data is often used without their consent, attribution, or compensation. Hence the lawsuits against Midjourney by ...artists, and against OpenAI/Microsoft/Github by coders
https://twitter.com/neilturkewitz/status/1614316534750654465
NEWS ALERT…
Class action lawsuit filed against Midjourney, StabilityAI (StableDiffusion) & DeviantArt for the unauthorized use of copyright protected works to train their AI systems.
...https://stablediffusionlitigation.com/pdf/00201/1-1-stable-diffusion-complaint.pdf
What impact will ChatGPT have on colleges, the workforce and democracy? Monday on http://andrewyang.com/podcast writer for the Atlantic and author of “The Next Civil War: Dispatches from ...America’s Future” @StephenMarche joins to talk where AI is taking us - whether we like it or not.
From the week: Surveying the Profession(s): How Much Do UK Writers Earn? | @Porter_Anderson https://bit.ly/3WDDnT8 @ALCS_UK @Soc_of_Authors @copyrightcentre @UofGlasgow | A new British survey of ...authors warns of falling incomes and faltering sustainability in writing occupations
#KI #Hörbuch Death of the narrator? Apple unveils suite of AI-voiced audiobooks | Apple | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/04/apple-artificial-intelligence-ai-audiobooks