As part of a large coalition of European rightsholders organisations—including authors, performers, publishers and others—, AEPO-ARTIS expresses its strong opposition to the European Commission's recent AI Act Implementation package.
It has become a tradition that at the start of a new Presidency our General Secretary writes a letter to the active head of State to inform the new Presidency...
On 27 May, AEPO-ARTIS held its annual conference in Brussels, this year entitled Performers’ FAIR Remuneration as an EU Objective. The event attracted over 100 participants, with more than half...
On 24-25 April, AEPO-ARTIS attended a two day conference entitled the “Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on Copyright, Media and Creative Sectors” organised by the Polish Ministry of Culture, under the auspices of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
On 28 March, a joint statement signed by a broad coalition of organisations from the creative sector was published to express opposition to the third draft of the European Union's General-Purpose AI (GPAI) Code of Practice.
The 2025 Spotify Loud and Clear report has been published and as with previous years it is full of BIG numbers and lots of dollar signs, such as those in...
On Tuesday, 11th March, French performer societies SPEDIDAM and ADAMI have jointly announced that they are exercising the right to opt-out of the exception that allows AI developers to train...
In reaction to a pending proposal to cut private copy remunerations with 90% in the Czech Republic, AEPO-ARTIS, EVA, GESAC, IFFRO and SAA have addressed Czech Minister of Culture Martin Braxa with a call to support the Czech and European Cultural and Creative Sector.
Last week, the Commission published its Work Programme 2025. Somewhere hidden in the initiatives on “Supporting people, strengthening our societies and our social model”, the Commission makes it its goal...
Brussels, 17 February 2025 Dear Executive Vice-President Virkkunen, Dear Commissioner Micallef, The AI Office is currently tasked with the critical responsibility of successfully finalising the ‘General-Purpose AI Code of Practice’...