Authors from all over the world joined #behindeverybook on #WorldBookDay2020
EWC campaign #behindeverybook on 23 April: solidarity w
EWC long-read-pick: “Copyright as the Canary in the Coalmine” by Hugh Stephens
COVID is Not an Excuse to Throw the Accepted Rules Out
COVID-19: IMPACT ON AUTHORS AND THE EU BOOK SECTOR
#Corona-crisis – authors of the European and US book
47 writers from 13 countries: the Europe Union Prize for Literature Shortlist!
EUROPEAN UNION PRIZE FOR LITERATURE ANNOUNCES 2020 SHOR
#saveEUculture: EWC signs Open Letter to Member States and Commission
#saveEUculture EWC, together with 312 Cultural and Auth
UK: EWC Member The Society of Authors deems so-called National Emergency Library ‘disgraceful and unlawful’
The Society of Authors has joined a chorus of criticism
JOINT STATEMENT: COVID-19-Crisis: call for specific measures for authors!
Authors’ Organisations Joint Statement on COVID-19 Cr
Finland: Income of non-fiction writers
Two of three non-fiction writers in Finland do other wo
++ cancelled ++ Denmark: Nordic Copyright in an EU Perspective – UBVA Seminar
++event cancelled++ EWC at the UBVA Seminar on Copyrigh
Creative Europe Programme: Support to Literary Translation projects
Now open: Call for proposals (5. March – 5. May 2
Switzerland: EWC at the FIL Symposium – Women in the Literary World + event postponed +
+postponed + FIL – Women in the literary sector | Sym
Germany: ++ BOOK FAIR LEIPZIG CANCELLED ++
EWC at the BOOK FAIR LEIPZIG ++ UPDATE: the Book Fair i
Norway: NFFO sets out ethical guidelines for non-fiction writers
Responsibility of the authors: EWC Member NFFO publishe
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Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Copyright: EWC response to the WIPO consultation
How original is artificial intelligence? Consultation r
Ireland: EWC Member Irish Writers’ Union on the importance of PLR
Public Lending Right: A life saver? By Roy Hunt. Public
European creators call for an ambitious and faithful implementation of the Copyright Directive on national level at ECSA’s Creators Conference
Creators, EU policy makers and stakeholders gathered in
UK: EWC Member The Society of Authors calls on Government to proceed with implementation of the Copyright Directive
DSM Directive: EWC Member The Society of Authors urges
France: The Racine Report offers 23 recommendations
The Racine Report: 23 recommendations for authors
STUDY: E-Book Piracy displaced legal consumption
Male, employed, 18-34 years old: who is using illegal s
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- #freewordsBelarus #standwithBelarus #justice4Belarus : The EWC and CEATL call upon the Ministers of Culture of the EU Member States to take urgent steps required to end the violence and repression against writers, translators and the independent cultural scene in Belarus.
On the International Solidarity Day with Belarus, announced by opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya for 7 February 2021, 46 authors’ and 35 …
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