EVA welcomes the adoption of the JURI Committee report “Copyright and generative artificial intelligence – opportunities and challenges” drafted by MEP Axel Voss, with a majority of 17 votes in [...]
EVA welcomes Laetitia Nguala Masamba as the new Secretary General of EVA, after her unanimous appointment by the EVA General Assembly. Laetitia is a visual artist and published children’s book illustrator, [...]
EVA Secretary General Carola Streul leaves EVA EVA warmly celebrates Carola Streul, who in almost three decades of dedicated guidance and commitment to the cause of visual artists in Europe [...]
On 30th July, EVA co-signs the joint statement by a broad coalition of rightsholders active across the EU’s cultural and creative sectors regarding the AI Act implementation measures adopted by the European Commission.
After the impressive impact of the joint statement of European cultural organizations denouncing the shortcomings of the Code of Practice, the same organizations have gathered a task force and developed [...]
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.
On October 14, ADAGP and META announced a new agreement that grants META a license allowing its users to continue sharing and using artists' works across its platforms. In return, [...]
European and international associations of authors’ collective management organisations in the audiovisual, music, text and visual art’s sectors – CISAC, EVA, IFRRO, GESAC and the SAA – have been [...]
Last week, EVA Secretary General Carola Streul was in Geneva for the 45th session of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights to advocate for artists’ rights [...]
Ahead of WIPO SCCR45, EVA joins the voices of IFRRO and its European members in advocating a balanced approach to copyright exceptions and limitations that ensures decent living and [...]
