CRISIS MONITORING
The EWC Annual General Assembly was succesfully held in Madrid.
Measuring the crisis in the creative sectors: WIPO study published
One Year of Crisis: The Winter of our Discontent
The Winter of our Discontent: 2nd Survey on the Impact of the Corona Crisis
EWC POSITION PAPER
Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Copyright Ecosystem
PRESS RELEASE One Year of Crisis: The Winter of our Discontent
RE:START CONVERSATIONS Part II – SAVE THE DATE Beyond the crisis: Recovery, resilience and sustainability of the book sector – 16 June 10.00 CEST – ONLINE
AUTHORS GROUP POSITION – EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT’S REPORT ON THE SITUATION OF ARTISTS AND THE CULTURAL RECOVERY IN THE EU
RE:START CONVERSATIONS. Beyond the crisis: Recovery, resilience and sustainability of the book sector – 17 March 10.00 CET – ONLINE
Society of Authors (UK) survey: Two-thirds of authors reporting loss of income during Covid-19
FEP REPORT: Consequences of the Covid-19 crisis on the book market
OPEN LETTER: 45 leading cultural personalities call for the European Council to invest in all our creative futures
How to champion writers and translators behind every book
Association of Catalan Language Writers (Spain) survey: professional authors are hit the most during the Covid-19 crisis by income losses
WRITERS AND TRANSLATORS CALL ON THE DECISION MAKERS FOR AN OVERALL POLITICAL COMMITMENT TO AUTHORS AND CULTURE
The Economic Impact of COVID-19 on Writers and Translators
CULTURE POLICY
@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