EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS
The European Parliament: The together-together.eu community has been launched, which is dedicated to meeting, exchanging knowledge and learning new skills about democracy and the EU. The purpose of the community is also to encourage Europeans to participate in the European elections next year. More about this at this link .
European Parliament: Artificial intelligence expert Letitia Parcalabescu talks with two MEPs active in the field of new technologies, Brando Benifei and Dragoš Tudorache. More about this at this link .
INDUSTRY
The associations AEPO-ARTIS, ALCAM, AMA, APMA, CIAGP, CIAM, CISAC, ECSA, IMPF, MCNA and SCAPR have addressed an open letter to European decision-makers, in which they call on them to regulate the field of artificial intelligence. This is increasingly taking over the work of creators, so the EU must urgently protect the rights of creators, artists and performers. Transparency and accountability of artificial intelligence system operators are key, the organizations emphasize. More about this at this link . CEPI, CEPIC, EMMA, ENPA, EPC, FEP, GESAC, ICMP, IFPI, IMPALA and IMPF also wrote a similar appeal in an open letter. The mentioned associations estimate that it is necessary to place the field of artificial intelligence in a legal framework, and they see the proposal of the European Parliament on the regulation of this field as a basis for this. More about this at this link .
Euroactiv : Adami, the leading French association that fights for the rights of artists, has expressed solidarity with more than 160,000 American actors who are on strike for a better social situation and regulation of the field of artificial intelligence, as it increasingly takes over their work. Adami addressed an open letter to the French Minister of Culture, Rimi Abdul-Malak, in which she is urged to organize a series of consultations and prepare a set of measures with which France will address the field of artificial intelligence. More about this at this link .
US Copyright office: Record of a consultation on copyright and artificial intelligence, focusing on literary works and the audiovisual industry. More about this at this link .
Managing IP: Rights holders will have to fight for a long time to get adequate rights from the use of their works by generative artificial intelligence. According to experts, the chances of the EU deciding that the legislation would apply uniformly to all cases of infringement of generative artificial intelligence are low. More about this at this link .
Euroactiv: Commentary on Creating artificial intelligence and copyright: Where will the originality and ownership debate go? More about this at this link .
Advanced Television: In an increasingly fragmented streaming market, US consumers are relying on curated collections to find content, according to a new survey by Horowitz Research on the state of the media, entertainment and technology sector in 2023. Eight in 10 users say sometimes or often views content from collections or hubs. More about this at this link .
Advanced Television: More than a fifth of American adults are worried that a writers’ and actors’ strike could impoverish the supply of movies and series, but even more fear the effects of artificial intelligence on their lives, according to a survey by the online survey and questionnaire platform Survey Monkey. As they found, as many as 44 percent of Americans are worried about how artificial intelligence will affect workers, and 32 percent are more concerned about how artificial intelligence could affect their own work than the screenwriters’ and actors’ strike. More about this at this link .
Hollywood Reporter: Leading companies in the field of artificial intelligence have voluntarily agreed to the state to set guidelines for managing the risks brought by the new technology. Seven companies – OpenAI, Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Inflection and Anthropic – have promised to allow independent testing of the security of their artificial intelligence systems before they are presented to the public. In addition, information about the security of this technology will be shared with the government, the White House announced. More about this at this link .
The Guradian: The Guardian: More than 8,000 writers, united under the umbrella of the Author Guild of America, have sent an open letter to the CEOs of OpenAI, Alphabet, Meta, Stability AI and IBM. It requires those companies to obtain permission to use copyrighted material, pay fair compensation for using the works to “learn” AI systems, and pay fair compensation to authors after the AI systems use their works to make a product. More about this at this link .