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The EWC Burning Issues Forum on AI in the book sector – 3 June 2023

9th May 2023

The EWC Burning Issues Forum

AI: Legal, economic and ethical challenges in the book sector

The forum will address issues of the present: technical and economical developments within the book sector, legal and ethical handling of AI for writers, translators, CMOs, and the whole book sector.

  • Venue: Hotel Albrechtshof (Saal Klepper), Berlin.
  • Date: 3 June 2023, 14:00-16:30.
  • For EWC Delegates, invited Speakers and selected Guests only.

Program

14:00  WELCOME by the Moderators:  Maïa Bensimon, Eystein Hanssen.

14:05   ICEBREAKER SESSION – QUIZ: TO BOT, OR NOT TO BOT

14:15  AI IN THE BOOKSECTOR, AI & IP

15:00  Break and buffet

15:30  ECONOMICS, ETHICS

16:20  Wrap up by the Moderators

16:45 -17:45   Optional for free follow-up debates and mingling.

TO THE BOOKLET

Speakers

AI & THE BOOK SECTOR___

  • André Hansen (Translator – Board Member of the Literary Translators Association VdÜ, Germany)
  • Nina George (Novelist, EWC President)

AI & IP___

  • Dr. Robert Staats (Lawyer, CEO VG Wort)
  • Prof. Dr. Silke von Lewinski (ALAI President Germany, Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition)

AI & ECONOMICS___

  • Prof. Lena Falkenhagen (VS Chair)
  • Katharina Uppen­brink (Managing Director, Initiative Urheberrecht)

AI & ETHICS___

  • Alice Rosenfeldt (Jurist, Swedish Association of Educational Writers)
  • Jens J. Kramer (Novelist, outgoing Chair Syndikat –German Language Crime Writers)
TO THE BOOKLET 
The EWC Burning Issues Forum 2023 is Co-sponsored by VG Wort and KulturWerk e.V.

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