The impact of AI on European creative sectors has been a key topic for EU policymakers over the past year, and the Danish 2025 EU Presidency has placed it high...
Together with other stakeholders, AEPO-ARTIS urged EU policy-makers to ensure that music is not only funded but strategically supported in the next EU budget, turning political intent into tangible impact and giving European music the visibility, investment, and policy recognition it deserves.
In 2011 the EU extended the term of protection of performers’ neighbouring rights from 50 years to 70 years. In doing this, the EU aimed at guaranteeing that performers benefit from...
We are pleased to announce that AEPO-ARTIS has officially become a stakeholder of the European Union Intellectual Property Office’s (EUIPO) Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights.
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...