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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 Call by EWC & CEATL to stand in solidarity with human translators

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, EWC-STATEMENTS&PRESS RELEASES, JOINT STATEMENTS, NEWS
2 months ago
Joint Statement by EWC and CEATL to call on the global book sector, including writers, agents, publishers and readers, to stand in solidarity with human literary translators. (more…)

Update: Anthropic Copyright Class action

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, NEWS
4 months ago
update on the Anthropic Copyright Class Action: The settlement website in the Bartz v Anthropic class action is now live and can be found in the link below. It includes…

EWC stays cautious on the Anthropic settlement proposal for U.S. copyright claims

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, EWC-STATEMENTS&PRESS RELEASES, NEWS, PUBLICATIONS
5 months ago
Brussels, 9th of September 2025 PDF: EWC Press Release Anthropic Settlement  Press Release Cautious Welcome by EWC for the Anthropic Settlement proposal: The right signal, but no basis for future…

Launch of WIPO AI Infrastructure Interchange (AIII, “A Triple I”)

5 months ago
  ttps://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/2025/ai-infrastructure-interchange.html

EWC’s Position | GPAI Code of Practice & the Template

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, CULTURE POLICY, EUROPEAN WRITERS' COUNCIL, EWC-STATEMENTS&PRESS RELEASES, NEWS, WORKING GROUPS
6 months ago
The GPAI Code of Practice is an industry-over-friendly fig leave, and an invitation to a self-service buffet, serving (non-EU) AI companies. It could have been a (more…)

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
8 months 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…

WIPO: Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Right

11 months ago

WIPO: Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights: Forty-Fifth Session

WIPO: Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Right

12 months ago

WIPO: Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights: Forty-Fifth Session

EWC at the Copyright Conference of the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, EUROPEAN WRITERS' COUNCIL
2 years ago
As part of the Belgian presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU), the FPS Economy invited experts and organisations to a two half-day copyright conference that took place…

Analysis: The success of Generative AI in the book sector is based on theft

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, FACTS AND FIGURES, NEWS
2 years ago
Generative, analytical and assistive informatics, sub-areas of so-called artificial “intelligence”, threatens numerous jobs and fields of labour in the book sector and will replace some professions by machines in the…

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PLR International: EWC is founding member of New Association

December 11, 2025

EWC @Frankfurt Book Fair 2025 – Panels & Events

October 14, 2025

Supporting the Call: Keep Europe’s Culture strong

October 4, 2025

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

September 1, 2025

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

July 30, 2025

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

July 14, 2025
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