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’...
Having regard to the Recommendation of the OECD Council on Artificial Intelligence, dated 3 May 2024, in particular its Principles for a Responsible Approach in Support of Trustworthy AI, including...
With start of Poland’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union, AEPO-ARTIS sent an open letter to Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, highlighting the importance of culture and calling...
AEPO-ARTIS is delighted to welcome MÜYORBİR, the Musical Performers Professional Association of Türkiye, as its 40th member. This addition to our growing community is an important milestone and strengthens AEPO-ARTIS’s...
AEPO-ARTIS published a manifesto providing the EU institutions with an instrument that points out the most important objectives that the EU must pursue over the next five years to create the fair digital environment needed to keep the European cultural sector viable for our performers.
Alongside various creator and rightholder organisations across the EU’s cultural and creative industries, AEPO-ARTIS, has co-signed a joint letter addressed to policymakers. The letter calls for fair remuneration for all rightholders, including performers. It reaffirms support for the objectives of the AI Act and urges policymakers to ensure the effective and meaningful implementation of a ‘healthy and sustainable licensing market’ that covers all equitable solutions, including a right to remuneration for recorded performances used for machine learning. Read the full letter.
On 24 and 25 October, AEPO-ARTIS – in collaboration with AZAS, AIPA and the North Macedonian IPO – organised a two-day regional conference in Skopje on “EU Enlargement and Copyright Law:...