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Joint statement by EU’s CCSs on the third draft of the GPAI Code of Practice
The third draft of the GPAI Code of Practice undermines the objectives of the AI Act, contravenes EU law and ignores the intention of the EU legislator – we cannot support it.
Letter to the CZ Ministry of Culture on private copying cuts
On 4th March, EVA co-signed a letter addressed to the Czech Ministry of Culture to strongly oppose the recent proposal of amending the Copyright legislation, which would drastically cut private copying tariffs by 90%. Such a move would have serious implications for the Czech cultural and creative industries. The alert sent by Czech collective management organisations (including our member OOA-S) led to the joint response of five European organisations representing authors, performers, publishers and producers, asking for governmental support in ensuring private copying compensation, which is a consolidated concept in the EU acquis and cannot be reduced to a budgetary matter.
EVA calls for urgent action on the AI Code of Practice
EVA, together with several authors’ organisations, has sent a joint letter to Vice-President Henna Virkkunen and Commissioner Glenn Micallef to denounce the lack of progress in the second draft of the General Purpose AI (GPAI) Code of Practice. Instead of moving forward, this draft weakens transparency and copyright protection, undermining its very purpose.