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European Writers' Council @europeanwriterscouncil.eu · 25/05/2026

Further Limitations and Exceptions In the existing copyright mean a weakening for Authors. europeanwriterscouncil.eu/260525_wipo_... Pressure on human authors and the exploitation of their works increases, budgets for education and culture are cut, Big tech is disrespecting authors’ rights & culture

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European Writers' Council @europeanwriterscouncil.eu · 19/03/2026

EWC at the WIPO Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Interchange (AIII) europeanwriterscouncil.eu/2603_wipo-ai... On the occasion of the launch of the AI Infrastructure Interchange - AIII its important to develop measures for a meaningful marking and labeling of AI (re)produced products.

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European Writers' Council @europeanwriterscouncil.eu · 11/03/2026

🎉When ART rules : The EWC welcomes the adoption of the “Voss-Report”, setting up clear protections for authors in the era of generative AI, and calls on now the EU Commission and the EU Council to adopt the long-needed approach to rebalance the unjust market, […]

Text- Graphic on white background with vertical text: EWC news
Horizontal headline in turquoise: When ART rules.
Further text:
EWC welcomes the adoption of the ‚Voss-Report‘, setting up clear protections for authors in the era of Gen-AI.

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European Writers' Council @europeanwriterscouncil.eu · 11/02/2026

Some #impressions from our first EWC’s in-person Board meeting of the new Board, elected in May. We were massively looking forward to - and also very much rewarded with #inspiring encounters and talks at - the network cocktail on Wednesday evening.

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European Writers' Council @europeanwriterscouncil.eu · 07/12/2025

Sebastià Portell, member of EWC’ Board, wrote an in-depth article about AI and authors' rights (in Catalan and also translated into Spanish) for The New Barcelona Post. He also summarizes the work EWC has been doing in the last three years. www.thenewbarcelonapost.cat/ia-drets-aut...

Grafik with picture of the authors and member of the EWC board, Sebastià Portell, with Statement:
“Authorization,” “Remuneration,” and “Transparency.” These three concepts are basic notions found in international intellectual property legislation, which should prevail over any technology or reality that may arise subsequently.

Grafik with picture of the authors and member of the EWC board, Sebastià Portell, with Statement in Catalan:
AUTORITZACIÓ, REMUNERACIO,
TRANSPARENCIA [...]
Són nocions bàsiques que podem
trobar al conjunt de la legislacio intemacional sobre
propietat intellectual QUE HAURIA DE PREVALDRE SOBRE QUALSEVOL techologia o realitat
nascuda posteriorment.

Grafik with picture of the authors and member of the EWC board, Sebastià Portell, with Statement in Spanish:
AUTORIZACIÓN, REMUNERACIÓN,
TRANSPARENCIA [...]
son nociones básicas que encontramos en la legislación intemacional
soore propiedad intelectual QUEI DEBERÍA PREVALECER SOBRE CUALQUIER Lechologia o realidad surgida postenormente.

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European Writers' Council @europeanwriterscouncil.eu · 07/12/2025

Authorisation, Remuneration Transparency. The basis of world copyright law in its form as Authors’ Rights, always places the author at the centre. Even more with the upcoming challenges from Gen A.I. we should be much further ahead by now, and not deny ourselves what makes us most human: #ai

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European Writers' Council @europeanwriterscouncil.eu · 24/11/2025

Due to Kindle's latest offer @ceatl.bsky.social & EWC call on the global book sector to stand in solidarity with human literary translators. As Amazon announced to launch Kindle Translate, a new AI-powered translation “service”, for selected Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) authors for free.

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JOINT LETTER
CEATL & European Writers' Council
WE
STAND UP FOR HUMAN TRANSLATORS
OUR RIGHTS
our Work
Our Minds
The background is filled with the word SOLIDARITY and the picture of the joint letter of the 2 organisations

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European Writers' Council @europeanwriterscouncil.eu · 16/11/2025

Hold those ones accountable who exploit and want to profit from our work and knowledge without contributing to growth and evolvement. @monika-pfundmeier.com @ninageorgenovelist.bsky.social

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European Writers' Council @europeanwriterscouncil.eu · 16/11/2025

EWC - speaking for over 250.000 authors in Europe - demands: @ec.europa.eu @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @hennavirkkunen.bsky.social Use your power. Stand up for Europe and Europe’s Culture and Creatives!

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European Writers' Council demands from Politics:
STAND UP for Europe, Europe's Culture and Creatives!

Hold those ones accountable who exploit and want to profit
from our work and knowledge without contributing to growth and evolving.

Graphic quoting Nina George, EWC Political Commissioner:
Europe's decision
makers are prepared to throw individual rights under the (Omni)bus to make it easier for non-EU oligopolies
to exploit us.
EWC warns:
this is the sell-out of Europe's strength and independence

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EWC calling on all creators, on all of us. The future is on ALL of us.

"The key is to GET,
to BE organised.
We have to be standing solidly, protecting ourselves as individuals and protecting European society & culture.

Let's get organised. For real!

quoting Monika Pfundmeier, EWC 2nd Vice President

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European Writers' Council @europeanwriterscouncil.eu · 14/10/2025

Meet us! Discuss with us, get informed, get inspired! In several panels we exchange about the most burning topics for writers and literature - and also come together to connect. europeanwriterscouncil.eu/2510_ewcfbm/

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European Writers' Council @europeanwriterscouncil.eu · 14/09/2025

EWC is happy to have been part of the European Book Sector Roundtable, a conference with enthralling insights into the chances and challenges of the different players of the entire book chain (authors, literary translators, publishers, booksellers, librarians, reading promoters).

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European Writers' Council @europeanwriterscouncil.eu · 30/07/2025

"A betrayal of the EU AI Act’s objectives” „We are being sold out in favour of GenAI model providers“: Joint Statement on the GPAI Code of Practice and the template by 40 Federations of the European Cultural and Creative Sectors europeanwriterscouncil.eu/ccs-joint-st... #AIAct #CodeOfPractice

Picture with the Logos of 40 organisations in the arts and culture sector
and Text:
„We are being sold out in favour of GenAI model providers“:

Joint Statement on the GPAI Code of Practice and the template by 40 Federations of the European Cultural and Creative Sectors

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We call on the European Parliament and Member States, as co-legislators, to challenge the unsatisfactory process of this exercise.

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Code, Guidelines and Template are for the sole benefit of the GenAI model providers that continuously infringe copyright and related rights to build their models.

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European Writers' Council @europeanwriterscouncil.eu · 25/07/2025

@monika-pfundmeier.com , WRITER, VICE PRESIDENT| EUROPEAN WRITERS' COUNCIL: ‘The CoP is created as a fig leaf disguising the most powerful technology. In doing so, it strengthens the arbitrariness, interests and power of individual companies – not the law, not rationality, not the EU.’

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‘The CoP is putting a fig leaf in front of the most powerful technology. In doing so, it is strengthening the arbitrariness, interests and power of individual companies – not the law, not rationality, not the EU.’
MONIKA PFUNDMEIER, WRITER, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN WRITERS' COUNCIL

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European Writers' Council @europeanwriterscouncil.eu · 25/07/2025

Assessment+insights on EU GPAI Code of Practice allowing AI companies freedoms at the expense of creatives and future education. The CoP is intended to oblige #AI providers to be transparent and PROTECT COPYRIGHT. Experts from the creative industries criticise, it primarily/only serves #techbros.

Image with text, followed by portraits of the six experts who give their assessment of the EU Code of Practice for AI models:
Damning conclusion from creative experts
The EU Code of Practice is intended to oblige AI providers to be transparent and protect copyrights. However, experts from the creative industries criticise that the code fails to protect authors and primarily serves the interests of tech companies.

Quote:
‘This code is not a legally binding set of rules and completely misses the practical and legal interests of the authors concerned. It is a political compromise that serves (non-EU) AI developers.’ NINA GEORGE, AUTHOR, POLITICAL ADVISOR TO THE EUROPEAN WRITERS' COUNCIL

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European Writers' Council @europeanwriterscouncil.eu · 01/07/2025

EWC' Vice President Maïa Bensimon participates in the exchange on: *AI and the book sector- exchange on the taken actions and the possible solutions* The Generative AI represents numerous challenges for the book sector. The event scheduled for 2 July at the European Authors’ House (MEDAA)

Graphic with Information about an event on 2nd Juli with an exchange about AI and what models for action should the European book sector adopt. In the upper middle is a graphic with reading people in the lower middle on the right is a picture in black and white of Maïa Bensimon, Vice President of European Writers` Council

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European Writers' Council @europeanwriterscouncil.eu · 04/06/2025

A strong team to face the storm we're already in the middle of - on the side of our brilliant EWC Secretary General Nicole Pfister Fetz, EWC Commissioner for Political Affairs and President of Honor Nina George Coordinator Zsuzsánna Doczy 🙌🏼

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European Writers' Council @europeanwriterscouncil.eu · 04/06/2025

WELCOME to our new Board (2025-2027): Grazyna Plebanek , President Maïa Bensimon , 1st VP Monika Pfundmeier , @mopfundmeier.bsky.social 2nd VP Board: @eyshans.bsky.social Eystein Hanssen Claus Ankersen Sebastià Portell Conor Kostick @conorkostick.bsky.social

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European Writers' Council @europeanwriterscouncil.eu · 04/06/2025

Here we are! Greeting all of our friends, writers, colleagues, activists for authors rights, cultural rights, human rights. HELLOOOOO there! #authorsrights #literature

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