European Composer and Songwriter Alliance (ECSA)

ECSA's July news is out!

🔵 Joint statement on EU AI Act implementing package
🔵 European Commission’s investigation into UMG’s acquisition of Downtown
🔵 ECSA welcomes MEP Axel Voss’ draft report on copyright and #genAI
🔵 EU budget proposal, SoundTrack_Cologne, and much more!

➡️ Read: bit.ly/4ojTaF2

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

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

Picture with Text: 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.

"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

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#AIAct #CodeOfPractice

🚨 We call on the European Commission to revisit the implementation package and enforce Article 53 in a meaningful way, ensuring that the EU AI Act lives up to its promise to safeguard European intellectual property rights in the age of generative AI.

❌ We see the recently published GPAI Code of Practice, the GPAI Guidelines, and the Template for disclosure of a sufficiently detailed summary as a missed opportunity to provide real protection of IP rights in the context of #genAI. This outcome does not deliver on the promise of the EU AI Act.

❗ Together with a broad coalition of rightsholders active across the EU’s cultural and creative sectors, we express our strong concerns about the EU AI Act implementing package, which does not provide a meaningful implementation of the GPAI obligations under the AI Act.

➡️ Read: bit.ly/3H8lCsC

Alan Kelly TD, chair of Joint Oireachtas Committee for Culture launches IMRO Muisc Report

Very informative launch of @imro Ireland: Music Report 2025 this morning. Recognising the cultural, social and economic value of music and threats of unregulated AI and getting a fair share from streaming for creators
@ecsa.bsky.social @malcolmbyrne.bsky.social

➡️ Read our statement: bit.ly/4khJJCA

Approving this deal would further exacerbate market concentration which is detrimental to composers and songwriters – and a healthy music sector.

As the music market is already dominated by a handful of global players, the acquisition of Downtown Music by UMG would hinder fair competition across the music value chain and reduce the freedom of choice for composers and songwriters.

🚨 We urge the European Commission to block Universal Music Group (UMG)’s acquisition of Downtown Music.

Opportunity for European film composers: Film Music Career Mentoring courses with Oticons!

Get tailored guidance through both the creative and business aspects composing for film by acclaimed film composers agent George Christopoulos and renowned composer Miriam Cutler.

🔗 Apply: bit.ly/44cIIHi

ECSA's June news is out!

🔵 #AI: joint letter to European Parliament’s JURI Committee
🔵 ECSA President @helienne.bsky.social joins meetings in New York and Biarritz
🔵 Joint call: increase the budget of #CreativeEurope
🔵 EFM, SoundTrack _Cologne, and much more!

➡️ Read: bit.ly/4lqZtVz

As the EU prepares its next 7-year budget, it is crucial to protect and strengthen #CreativeEurope. Together with 70+ European associations, we call on EU leaders to:

🔹Keep Creative Europe stand-alone
🔹Double its budget
🔹Invest strategically in culture’s future

📢 Full letter: bit.ly/45OMzvp

#authorsrights #humanrights @europeanwriterscouncil.eu and other creatives' organisations urge MEPs to respect and defend human creativity and creatives' rights against the exploitation of #ai
@ceatl.bsky.social @ecsa.bsky.social @efjeurope.bsky.social @egair.eu @ifjglobal.bsky.social

We thank the European Parliament for drafting this report, which offers a crucial opportunity to engage in a long-overdue, democratic debate on generative AI and its impact on our creative communities.

In the letter, we call on the JURI Committee to ensure that the development of #generativeAI complies with the principles of informed #authorisation, #remuneration and #transparency for authors, performers and other rightsholders.

🚨 Today, a wide coalition representing hundreds of thousands of creators and artists sent a letter to members of the @europarl.europa.eu JURI Committee on MEP Axel Voss' report on “Copyright and generative artificial intelligence – opportunities and challenges".

➡️ Read our letter: bit.ly/3HHeT99

Out now: ECSA's monthly news!

🔵 Creators Talks panels at #Classical:NEXT and BMIM Special
🔵 #AI open letter ahead of EU’s Ministers of Culture Council meeting
🔵 #CreatorsForEuropeUnited call on AI
🔵 Global Statement on artistic freedom, U2C Awards, and much more!

➡️ Read: bit.ly/4mIXM6O

Live from Amsterdam: our #CreatorsTalks panel at #BMIMspecial!

@nainitadesai.bsky.social, Jesper Hansen (BFM, ECSA), Hans Everling (BCMM) and Marc du Moulin (ECSA) discuss buyouts, pseudo-publishing and other harmful contractual practices for audiovisual composers.

We, a broad coalition of authors, performers and other rightsholders organisations, call for a meaningful implementation of the EU AI Act, upholding the principles of transparency, consent, and remuneration.

It is time to #StayTrueToTheAct.

➡️ More info: StayTrueToTheAct.eu

🎼 Live from #Classical:NEXT: our #CreatorsTalks panel on discoverability and cultural diversity in the digital age!

Esther Gottschalk (Nieuw Geneco), Zahra Mani (ECSA) and Jannick Kirk Sørensen (Aalborg University) discuss how we can enhance the prominence and visibility of European works.

❗ As support for independent film and audiovisual storytelling is under growing threat, we must ensure that culture, creativity, and democratic access to diverse stories can continue to flourish.

➡️ Full statement: bit.ly/4361yy4
✍🏻 Sign: chng.it/kMkRxCzhQx

#GlobalStatementOnCulturalSovereignty

Cuando España y Portugal defendemos la cultura frente a la IA, no estamos solos.

Hoy, 13 organizaciones europeas que agrupan decenas de entidades se suman pidiendo transparencia en la IA, respeto a los derechos de autor y defender la diversidad cultural.

Gracias por brindarnos este apoyo.

🚨 ECSA has signed Creators for Europe United's open letter, calling for decisive action to ensure a fair, transparent and legally compliant development of #ArtificialIntelligence.

✍🏽 Sign the letter: creators-for-europe-united.eu

The #openletterCFEunited is initiated by Initiative Urheberrecht.

Open letter to EU Ministers of Culture on AI - FSE - Federation of Screenwriters in Europe FSE co-signed an open letter to the attention of the European Ministers of Culture ahead of the Education, Youth, Culture and Sport Council on 12-13 May 2025. They now have a prominent role to play on...

FSE co-signed open letter to EU Ministers of #Culture ahead of Council on 12-13 May. They have a prominent role to play on specific impact of #AI on European #CulturalDiversity & #ArtisticFreedom.
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#generativeAI #copyright #democracy

Ahead of this meeting, 🇪🇸 and 🇵🇹 called for a discussion on the value of the cultural and creative sectors in #AI development, including the importance to safeguard #copyright. We support this call: transparency obligations and respect for copyright law are essential to stay faithful to the AI Act.

📢 Together with various authors' and performers' organisations, we have sent a joint letter to the EU's Ministers of Culture ahead of the Education, Youth, Culture and Sport Council on 12-13 May. @consilium.europa.eu

➡️ Full letter: bit.ly/4d4sVwT

Great turnout yesterday for the SCGI and @creativeeuireland.bsky.social networking lunch with keynote by @helienne.bsky.social president of @ecsa.bsky.social on AI and advocacy work of ECSA

ECSA's April news is out!

🔵 ECSA publishes yearly Activity Report
🔵 Introducing Tune in Dialogues: ECSA’s brand new podcast!
🔵 Creators’ Talks panel at #Classical:NEXT
🔵 Statement: call to document and monitor violations of artistic freedom in Europe
🔵 ... and much more!

➡️ Read: bit.ly/4lSwhan

Take a look back with us and discover ECSA's 2024 - early 2025 Activity Report, showcasing all of our recent advocacy and cultural activities - made possible thanks to the tireless input from our members and the support of Creative Europe.

➡️ Find the report here: bit.ly/44IG38L