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Not fit for purpose: Writers, translators and journalists of the European text sector express strong opposition to the Third Draft of the EU’s Code of Practice under the AI Act’s implementation.

March 21, 2025

Joint open letter by CEATL, EFJ and EWC to Executive Vice-President Virkkunen & the EU AI Board PDF of Joint Letter EWC CEATL EFJ Dear Executive Vice-President Virkkunen, Dear Members of the EU AI Board: We, the three federations CEATL, EFJ and EWC, represent over…

EWC stands with Ukraine

February 25, 2025

3 years. And even more its important to stand & stand up for freedom. EWC STANDS WITH UKRAINE. 3 years ago European and International Writers and Translators – 53 Chairs and Presidents from 29 countries – condemned the violent attack on 24th February by the…

EWC urges UK Government: Don’t repeat EU’s devasting mistake on Copyright and AI

February 23, 2025

Instead of promoting a exception for Text and Data Mining, misinterpreted as “AI use” and together with a risky TDM opt-out regime, UK Government shall address the lack of transparency and licensing by AI providers, EWC pleas. In its response to the UK government’s extensive…

PARIS AI SUMMIT: 38 Cultural Organisations issue Charter on Culture and Innovation

February 10, 2025

Paris 2025 AI Action Summit The Paris AI Summit intends to promote reliable, sustainable and responsible AI. For the first time at this level, intellectual property is being discussed. (more…)

Joint Statement: The Impact of AI on the European creative communities

December 4, 2024

Facing today’s reality and paving the way for the next EU policy agenda If properly enforced, the AI Act will be a step in the right direction but will not be sufficient for a meaningful AI strategy for the cultural and creative industries . Together with…

Support for the writer Boualem Sansal

November 28, 2024

The arrest of Boualem Sansal on 16 November 2024 on his arrival in Algiers is yet another example of the repression of intellectuals by regimes determined to stifle any form of criticism or dissent. Charged with ‘undermining the integrity of national territory’ in Algeria, he…

EWC contribution to the AI Office consultation: Future-Proof AI Act

September 24, 2024

EWC responded to the Multi-stakeholder Consultation FUTURE-PROOF AI ACT: TRUSTWORTHY GENERALPURPOSE AI with the proviso that the premise of this consultation needs formal clarification. The exception(s) for text and data mining (Art. 3, Art. 4, Directive (EU) 2019/790) is inapplicable: The statutory language and text…

AI Pact: EWC contribution to the Selection of Topics

August 16, 2024

EWC urges the AI Office to not forget the sources of all AI development in the AI Pact: Authors, Artists and Performers The AI Act Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence entered into force on August 1, 2024. In this context,…

Transparency is the needed commitment to fairness: EWC Position Paper

June 5, 2024

EWC Position Paper on Contractual Practices in the European Book Sector Transparency is the needed commitment to fairness On the 3rd anniversary of the entry into force of the the Directive on Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Single Market (2019/790 (EU)), the EWC…

European Writers’ Council condemns the Russian attack on Ukrainian’s largest printing-house in Kharkiv

May 26, 2024

At the Annual General Assembly of the European Writers’ Council held 2024 in Helsinki, more than 60 delegates and Board Members of 19 European countries representing over 220,000 professional authors in the text and book sector, condemn the Russian attack on Ukrainian’s largest printing house…

EWC calls for withdrawal of NISO draft Recommended Practice on “Controlled Digital Lending”

April 21, 2024

EWC calls for withdrawal of NISO draft Recommended Practice on “Controlled Digital Lending” The European Writers’ Council submitted comments on the National Information Standards Organisation’s (NISO) “draft Recommended Practice, NISO RP-44-202X, Controlled Digital Lending”. (more…)

EWC’s Ten Principles to regulate Generative AI

April 16, 2024

EWC Handout: ten tasks and future scenarios to be addressed by political decisionmakers and stakeholders to regulate generative AI. The European Writers’ Council (EWC) is the world’s largest representation of writers in the book sector and of all genres (fiction, non-fiction, academic, children’s book, poetry,…

WIPO SCCR45: Exceptions and Limitations must fulfil the three-step test criteria

April 16, 2024

In April 2024 the SCCR meeting of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) takes place. On that occasion the Secretary General of the EWC European Writers‘ Council, Ms. Nicole Pfister Fetz, will comment on Agenda Points 5 and 6 (Limitations and exceptions for libraries and…

WIPO SCCR45: EWC comments the PLR Scoping Study

April 16, 2024

In April 2024 the SCCR meeting of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) takes place. On that occasion the Secretary General of the EWC European Writers‘ Council, Ms. Nicole Pfister Fetz, will comment on the presented Scoping Study on Public Lending Right, prepared by Ms.…

UN AI Advisory’s Report: EWC calls to put IP rights at the centre

March 31, 2024

IP and copyright should be not only an add-on, but in the heart of every (G)AI governance norms. The EWC calls upon the AI Advisory’s Body to form a Guiding Principle No 6: AI Regulation must put the IP rights of authors at the centre.…

EWC joined the WIPO CONVERSATION ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (IP) AND FRONTIER TECHNOLOGIES

March 15, 2024

EWC joined the WIPO CONVERSATION ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (IP) AND FRONTIER TECHNOLOGIES At the Ninth Session, Geneva, March 13 and 14, 2024, the EWC reminded the over 5000 participants at this international conference on AI and Copyright on the value of human works, without no generative…

IFRRO: Joint statement regarding exceptions and limitations to authors’ rights and copyright

March 7, 2024

Joint statement of IFRRO and its European association members ahead of WIPO SCCR: 45th Session, April 2024 In April 2024 the next SCCR meeting of the next World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) will take place. On that Occasion IFRRO and its European association members (EFJ…

Policy implications of the development of virtual worlds

January 22, 2024

EWC welcomes the adopted report Policy implications of the development of virtual worlds – civil, company, commercial and intellectual property law issues (2023/2062(INI)) In the shadow of the AI Act, equally relevant reports and political decisions are being negotiated in the final months of the…

STATEMENTS

EWC Statements

Not fit for purpose: Writers, translators and journalists of the European text sector express strong opposition to the Third Draft of the EU’s Code of Practice under the AI Act’s implementation.

EWC stands with Ukraine

EWC urges UK Government: Don’t repeat EU’s devasting mistake on Copyright and AI

PARIS AI SUMMIT: 38 Cultural Organisations issue Charter on Culture and Innovation

Joint Statement: The Impact of AI on the European creative communities

Support for the writer Boualem Sansal

EWC contribution to the AI Office consultation: Future-Proof AI Act

AI Pact: EWC contribution to the Selection of Topics

Transparency is the needed commitment to fairness: EWC Position Paper

European Writers’ Council condemns the Russian attack on Ukrainian’s largest printing-house in Kharkiv

EWC calls for withdrawal of NISO draft Recommended Practice on “Controlled Digital Lending”

EWC’s Ten Principles to regulate Generative AI

WIPO SCCR45: Exceptions and Limitations must fulfil the three-step test criteria

WIPO SCCR45: EWC comments the PLR Scoping Study

UN AI Advisory’s Report: EWC calls to put IP rights at the centre

EWC joined the WIPO CONVERSATION ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (IP) AND FRONTIER TECHNOLOGIES

IFRRO: Joint statement regarding exceptions and limitations to authors’ rights and copyright

Policy implications of the development of virtual worlds

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