Together with a broad coalition of European and global authors, performers, publishers, producers and other rightsholder organisations, we wish to formally express all our dissatisfaction with the Code of Practice (https://digital-strategy NULL.ec NULL.europa NULL.eu/en/policies/contents-code-gpai) for General Purpose AI providers (https://digital-strategy NULL.ec NULL.europa NULL.eu/en/policies/contents-code-gpai) under Article 53 of the EU AI Act, Guidelines (https://digital-strategy NULL.ec NULL.europa NULL.eu/en/policies/guidelines-gpai-providers), and Template for disclosure of a sufficiently detailed summary of training data (https://digital-strategy NULL.ec NULL.europa NULL.eu/en/policies/ai-code-practice), which were published by the European Commission this July.
The cultural and creative sectors must be safeguarded, as they are the foundations of our cultures and the Single Market.
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 also call on the European Parliament and Member States, as co-legislators, to challenge the unsatisfactory process of this exercise, which will further weaken the situation of the creative and cultural sectors across Europe and do nothing to tackle ongoing violations of EU laws.
