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Free All Words#FreeAllWords: International Text and Translation Fund of the European Writers‘ Council (EWC) gives a voice to authors from Belarus and Ukraine

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Joint Statement by EWC, EFJ and CEATL on the Own Initiative Report Copyright and AI by the JURI Committee and Rapporteur MEP Axel Voss.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, ARTISTIC FREEDOM, EWC-STATEMENTS&PRESS RELEASES, JOINT STATEMENTS, NEWS
12 months ago
Joint Statement by EWC, EFJ and CEATL on the Own Initiative Report Copyright and AI by the JURI Committee and Rapporteur MEP Axel Voss. On the occasion of the stakeholder…

“A betrayal of the EU AI Act’s objectives”: Joint Statement on the GPAI Code of Practice and the template by 40 organisations

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, JOINT STATEMENTS, NEWS
1 year ago
Joint statement by a broad coalition of rightsholders active across the EU’s cultural and creative sectors regarding the AI Act implementation measures adopted by the European Commission Representing a broad…

Feedback of the EWC on the DRAFT REPORT on Copyright and generative artificial intelligence – opportunities and challenges (2025/2058(INI))

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, EWC-STATEMENTS&PRESS RELEASES, FACTS AND FIGURES, NEWS, Statements
1 year ago
The European Writers’ Council (EWC) expresses its sincere gratitude for the important and long-awaited strategy and recommendations outlined in the own-initiative draft report Copyright and generative artificial intelligence – opportunities…

EWC at the Workshop Generative AI and Copyright upon invitation of the Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, EUROPEAN WRITERS' COUNCIL, EWC-STATEMENTS&PRESS RELEASES, FACTS AND FIGURES, NEWS
1 year ago
The Committee on Legal Affairs, with the support of the Policy Department for Justice, Civil Liberties and Institutional Affairs, organised a Workshop “Generative AI and copyright”. The event took place…

EWC contributed to the Call of Evidence for the Culture Compass

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, CONTRACTS, CULTURE POLICY, EWC-STATEMENTS&PRESS RELEASES, MEMBERS, NEWS
1 year ago
Law enforcement, data gaps, digital monopolies and an urgent call for authors at the table, not on the menue: The EWC sets its primary goals for the Commission’s Culture Compass…

EWC Burning Issues Forum 2025 – Writers on the Storm

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, ARTISTIC FREEDOM, BURNING ISSUES FORUM, CULTURE POLICY, EUROPEAN WRITERS' COUNCIL, EWC-EVENTS, MEMBERS, NEWS
1 year ago
Where: National Library of Norway, the hall Målstova, Oslo (Norway) When: Saturday 24 May 2025, 13:00-17:15  The program of the forum was developed by the European Writers’ Council (EWC) together…

Defending copyright is not a crime: EWC supports the Statement by the U.S. Authors Guild 

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, CAMPAIGNS, EWC-STATEMENTS&PRESS RELEASES, NEWS
1 year ago
Defending copyright is not a crime! EWC supports the Statement by the U.S. The Authors Guild on Trump‘s unlawful firing of U.S. Copyright Office‘s Director #WeStandWithShira (more…)

EWC raises concerns of the Code of Practice procedures: flawed and AI-industry favoring

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, EUROPEAN WRITERS' COUNCIL, EWC-STATEMENTS&PRESS RELEASES, MEDIA, NEWS
1 year ago
Coded for privileged access How Big Tech weakens rules on advanced AI: The EU is developing a Code of Practice to govern general purpose AI, as part of the implementation…

WIPO SCCR 46: “It is essential to protect human authors and the free word” – EWC on the PLR Scoping Study

CULTURE POLICY, E-LENDING, EDUCATIONAL SECTOR, EWC-STATEMENTS&PRESS RELEASES, FACTS AND FIGURES, NEWS, PLR
1 year ago
In April 2025 the SCCR meeting of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) took place. On that occasion the Secretary General of the European Writers‘ Council (EWC), Nicole Pfister Fetz, commented…

WIPO SCCR 46: The educational crises cannot be solved via copyright law

CULTURE POLICY, EDUCATIONAL SECTOR, EUROPEAN WRITERS' COUNCIL, EWC-STATEMENTS&PRESS RELEASES, NEWS
1 year ago
In April 2025 the 46th SCCR meeting of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) took place. On that occasion the Secretary General of the EWC European Writers‘ Council, Ms. Nicole…

NEWS

8 Demands for a sustainable future of Authors’ Right in the era of so-called AI: EWC response on the CALL FOR EVIDENCE

July 1, 2026

EWC AGM 2026 – What we did, decided, learned, exchanged …

June 23, 2026

Critical Voices in Critical Times

June 16, 2026

Defending The Writer as Critical Infrastructure

June 16, 2026

Press Release: European Writers’ Council – AGM 2026, Brussels

June 8, 2026

EWC Position Paper on the 5th Anniversary of the entry into force of the Directive on Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Single Market (EU) 2019/790 on 7th June 2026

June 1, 2026
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