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Culture at the IA summit: an ultra-short round table and a charter that has disappeared

The AI summit organized by the Elysée next week features a round table on creation, with a vague title and whose content and participants are…

Polish EU Presidency: focus on media, Creative Europe and misinformation

Poland, which holds the Council of the EU presidency until June, presented its cultural program. There was little mention of AI, and more of the…

EU: Germany calls for end to copyright exception benefiting to text and data mining

The subject is technical but fundamental to the AI dossier in Europe: Germany is backing a revision of the 2019 Copyright Directive to remove the…

Henna Virkkunen: « Artists should be remunerated for the use of their content to train AIs ».

Many MEPs reaffirmed their support for creators at an event organized by GESAC yesterday in Brussels. Commission Vice-President Henna Virkkunen delivered her first-ever speech to…

Disney+ seeks to win over french cinema with new commitments

Disney is taking a step in the direction of cinema, and is now becoming a key player in France with significant financial commitments. All against…

Marc du Moulin, ECSA: « Picture music composers are still faced with deleterious contractual practices despite the 2019 directive ».

ECSA publishes a report on the audiovisual sector's contractual practices towards film music composers, denouncing "buy out" practices and coercive publishing on a European scale.…

AI and copyright: the American trials (episode 1) – Meta’s arguments

The various lawsuits initiated in the USA by copyright owners against generative AI developers for illegal use of their works in LLM training are in…

IA Act: culture worried that the Commission’s latest draft does not respect EU copyright law

The cultural sector is outraged by the European Commission's lack of ambition to protect copyright when it comes to implementing the IA Act. To give…

Trump: French taxes on digital services, CNC and streaming in the spotlight

Donald Trump's announcements on the US exit from the OECD tax agreement put French taxes on US companies, including taxes funding the Centre national du…

European Court of Auditors: the end of audiovisual geo-blocking must be examined by 2026

As part of its report on the application of the 2018 Geoblocking Regulation, the European Court of Auditors recommends that the Commission rapidly assess, by…